The aim of this training is to reinforce the importance of antimicrobial resistance as a public health problem and to know the current strategies of the administrations for the transversal approach to antimicrobial resistance.

The aim of this day is to transfer and share knowledge with the livestock and animal health sector, as well as with society in general, about the implications and challenges arising from the fact that Catalonia has recently become officially free of tuberculosis in the bovine species. In particular, the actions carried out during the last decades to reach this milestone and the implications of the new status for herds will be reviewed. It will also describe the current situation of animal tuberculosis in Catalonia, the main risks we still face and the preventive and control measures that need to be maintained and strengthened. The day is aimed at farmers of cattle and small ruminant farms, veterinarians and official veterinarians of sanitation and slaughterhouses, staff of game handling establishments and the hunting sector in general, animal health professionals and human and to all the people interested in the situation and its control

The public event will take place on 31 May 2022, presenting the main conclusions of the EFA357/19/INNOTUB project (Interreg-POCTEFA 2014-2020).

Location: Casa Convalescència (Aules 11-13), Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171 (Barcelona)

Schedule: 9:30am-1:20pm

Free registration here.

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The INNOTUB network, through NEIKER, attends the XV Congress of the Spanish Society for the Conservation and Study of Mammals held in Córdoba from 4 to 7 December 2021, presenting two posters on the role of the badger as excretory of mycobacteria and on the circulation of non-tuberculous mycobacteria between wildlife and domestic animals in the Basque Country.

NEIKER researchers will present their results of the last years in the frame of the projects “Sanitary surveillance of the wild species in Euskadi (project VEPIFAUS)” financed by the Basque Government, in which collaborate the Provincial Councils of Araba, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, and “INNOTUB - Trans-Pyrenees Network for research and development of innovative tools for the control of animal tuberculosis”, funded by the EU in the Interreg-POCTEFA call and co-financed by the ERDF.

Program and registration at the link above.