Genetic diversity of selected medically important emerging and reemerging pathogens with zoonotic potential
| Identifier | APVV-15-0134 |
|---|---|
| Funding scheme | Slovak research and development agency |
| Principal investigator at UVLF | Valenčáková Alexandra, doc. MVDr., PhD. |
| Name of the project’s principal investigator | zodpovedný riešiteľ za UVLF |
| Project duration | 01.07.2016 – 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.