Genetic diversity of selected medically important emerging and reemerging pathogens with zoonotic potential

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IdentifierAPVV-15-0134
Funding schemeSlovak research and development agency
Principal investigator at UVLFValenčáková Alexandra, doc. MVDr., PhD.
Name of the project’s principal investigatorzodpovedný riešiteľ za UVLF
Project duration01.07.2016 – 30.06.2019
In recent years emerging and re-emerging diseases are getting into the foreground, of which approximately 75% are zoonotic potential. Their increasing incidence and prevalence is recorded not only in developing but also in developed countries. The rapid detection and response to diagnostic diseases is crucial, because many times there is unobserved spreading and infiltration of diseases to new territorial units. The submitted project determines a qualitative risk assessment of human health by microsporidial, cryptosporidial, chlamydial, ehrlichia/anaplasma and bartonella infections, whose common attribute is their zoonotic character and classification in the group of emerging or re-emerging diseases. Project detects their prevalence in a group of people and animals and by genotyping of individual species maps of the transmission between animals and humans. The result is the determination of the current epidemiological and epidemiological situation and definition of the local genotypes.