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Epidemiology of emerging vector-borne hemorrhagic pathogens of ruminants, horses and carnivores in North Vietnam

 

Project number: 2019-2.1.12-TÉT_VN-2020-00012

Total budget: 38.762.200 HUF

Funding rate: 100%

Project manager: Dr. Róbert Farkas

Duration:

from 1st January 2022. to 31st December 2024.

 

Summary:

Ticks act as vectors of numerous pathogens of animals and/or humans. There is very little information on the haemoparasite infections transmitted by haematophagous arthropods (so-called vector-borne haemoparasites) in animals and humans living in Vietnam. For example, there are no data about the prevalence of babesiosis, theileriosis and anaplasmosis, the vector species transmitting these pathogens, the epidemiology of these diseases and the economic and public health consequences of the occurrence of haemoparasites in small- and large-scale animal holdings. The Vietnamese government considers it an outstandingly important task for the animal and public health authorities to improve the efficiency of measures aimed at controlling vectors and the pathogens transmitted by them. The objective of the Hungarian-Vietnamese joint research and development project is to determine and survey, by conventional parasitological, molecular biological and epidemiological methods, the infection of ruminants, horses and carnivores living in the North Vietnamese farms and around the capital by tick-borne haemoparasitic protozoans and bacteria presenting an infection risk also to humans. A further goal of the studies is to obtain knowledge of the risk factors related to these diseases and to develop more effective treatment and prevention solutions. The new knowledge to be gained during the co-operation would support the work of veterinary and public health experts in both countries. The developed, freely usable and free-of-charge Quantum GIS plug-in would enable veterinary practitioners and other specialists to perform a spatial analysis of the occurrence of key vectors and prepare epidemiological risk maps, thus contributing to the reduction of economic losses caused by the pathogens studied and the prevention of diseases caused by vector-borne zoonotic pathogens in humans.