A Cross-Disciplinary Alliance to Identify, PREdict and prePARe for Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases

Project Information

PREPARE4VBD

Grant agreement ID: 101000365

DOI

10.3030/101000365

Project closed

EC signature date 5 May 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Total cost

€ 6 048 271,25

EU contribution

€ 6 048 271,25

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (10)

Summer school training module in WP3 developed diagnostics and detection tools

Report describing the Summer school training module in WP3 developed diagnostics and detection tools

Collected bird ticks/samples from three sites made available for holo-genomic analysis

Report describing the colloection of bird tickssamples from three sites made available for hologenomic analysis

Plan for Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication

Plan for Dissemination Exploitation and Communication

Provide training for summer school module on modelling
Report on communication, exploitation and dissemination activities (2)

Report on communication, exploitation and dissemination activities

Hologenomic datasets from tick vectors in Africa generated, curated and published in a sequence repository with open access

Report describing the process of generating, curating and publishing Hologenomic datasets from tick vectors in Africa

Maps of future risk scenarios for fasciolosis available on web-site
Summer School training material on tools for Molecular Diagnostics and Bioinformatics

Report describing Summer School training material on tools for Molecular Diagnostics and Bioinformatics

Report on communication, exploitation and dissemination activities (1)

Report on communication, exploitation and dissemination activities

30 cattle genomes sequenced, annotated and placed in open data repository

Report describing the process of sequencing and annotating 30 cattle genomes, and placing these in an open data repository

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (4)

Three regional stakeholder engagement workshops
Coordinate 1st Summer school (Models4VBDs - Geospatial Modelling) to be held in South Africa

Coordinate 1st Summer school Models4VBDs Geospatial Modelling to be held in South Africa

Visual identity and project website for PREPARE4VBD established
Coordinate 2nd Summer school (Tools4VBDs - Molecular Detection tool) to be held in Kenya

Coordinate 2nd Summer school (Tools4VBDs – Molecular Detection tool) to be held in Kenya

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Pen-side automated mini-FLOTAC system to diagnose snail-borne infections in cattle

Penside automated miniFLOTAC system to diagnose snailborne infections in cattle

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Climate change could fuel urinary schistosomiasis transmission in Africa and Europe

Author(s): Tiem van der Deure, Tim Maes, Tine Huyse, Anna‐Sofie Stensgaard
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 30, 2024, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17434

Tissue-specific localization of tick-borne pathogens in ticks collected from camels in Kenya: insights into vector competence

Author(s): Rua Khogali, Armanda Bastos, Joel L. Bargul, Dennis Getange, James Kabii, Daniel Masiga, Jandouwe Villinger
Published in: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2235-2988
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1382228

<i>Coxiella burnetii</i> serostatus in dromedary camels (<i>Camelus dromedarius</i>) is associated with the presence of <i>C. burnetii</i> DNA in attached ticks in Laikipia County, Kenya

Author(s): Tess Rooney, Eric M. Fèvre, Jandouwe Villinger, Maris Brenn‐White, Charles O. Cummings, Daniel Chai, Joseph Kamau, Alice Kiyong'a, Dennis Getange, Dickens O. Ochieng, Velma Kivali, Dawn Zimmerman, Marieke Rosenbaum, Felicia B. Nutter, Sharon L. Deem
Published in: Zoonoses and Public Health, Issue 71, 2024, Page(s) 503-514, ISSN 1863-1959
Publisher: Blackwell-Wiss.-Verl
DOI: 10.1111/zph.13127

Potential Hybridization of Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica in Africa — A Scoping Review

Author(s): Nukeri , S , Malatji , M P , Sengupta , M E , Vennervald , B J , Stensgaard , A-S , Chaisi , M & Mukaratirwa , S
Published in: Pathogens, Issue Vol 11, 2022, ISSN 2076-0817
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11111303

Resistance of zebu cattle (Bos indicus) to colonization by major ruminant hoof pathogens

Author(s): Peter Kuhnert, Nadia Loosli, Isabelle Brodard, Dorothea Lindtke, Joerg Jores
Published in: Veterinary Microbiology, Issue 296, 2024, Page(s) 110184, ISSN 0378-1135
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2024.110184

Occurrence of Fasciola (Digenea: Fasciolidae) Species in Livestock, Wildlife and Humans, and the Geographical Distribution of Their Intermediate Hosts in South Africa—A Scoping Review

Author(s): Ignore Nyagura, Mokgadi Pulane Malatji, and Samson Mukaratirwa
Published in: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022, ISSN 2297-1769
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2022.935428

Effects of temperature on the life history traits of intermediate host snails of fascioliasis: A systematic review

Author(s): Agrippa Dube, Chester Kalinda, Tawanda Manyangadze, Tafadzwa Mindu, Moses John Chimbari
Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Issue 17, 2023, Page(s) e0011812, ISSN 1935-2735
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011812

Environmental DNA in human and veterinary parasitology - Current applications and future prospects for monitoring and control

Author(s): M.E. Sengupta, C. Lynggaard, S. Mukaratirwa, B.J. Vennervald, A.S. Stensgaard
Published in: Food and Waterborne Parasitology, 2022, ISSN 2405-6766
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.fawpar.2022.e00183

Temperature impacts the bovine ex vivo immune response towards Mycoplasmopsis bovis

Author(s): Thomas Démoulins, Thatcha Yimthin, Dorothea Lindtke, Lukas Eggerschwiler, Raphael Siegenthaler, Fabien Labroussaa, Joerg Jores
Published in: Veterinary Research, Issue 55, 2024, ISSN 1297-9716
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
DOI: 10.1186/s13567-024-01272-3

Infection Rates of Fasciola Intermediate Host Snail Species and Their Distribution in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Author(s): Mpumelelo Ian Hadebe, Tawanda Manyangadze, Chester Kalinda, Tafadzwa Mindu, Moses John Chimbari
Published in: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Issue 8, 2023, Page(s) 467, ISSN 2414-6366
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed8100467

Comparison of Mini-FLOTAC, Flukefinder® and sedimentation techniques for detection and quantification of Fasciola hepatica and Calicophoron daubneyi eggs using spiked and naturally infected bovine faecal samples

Author(s): Antonio Bosco, Lavinia Ciuca, Maria Paola Maurelli, Paola Vitiello, Giuseppe Cringoli, Joaquin M. Prada, Laura Rinaldi
Published in: Parasites &amp; Vectors, Issue 16, 2023, ISSN 1756-3305
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-023-05890-2

Comparison of test performance of a conventional PCR and two field-friendly tests to detect Coxiella burnetii DNA in ticks using Bayesian latent class analysis

Author(s): Maureen W. Kamau, Carmel Witte, Wynand Goosen, Mathew Mutinda, Jandouwe Villinger, Dennis Getange, Rua Khogali, Michael E. von Fricken, Eric Maurice Fèvre, Dawn Zimmerman, Yvonne-Marie Linton, Michele Miller
Published in: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2297-1769
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1396714

Conference proceedings (9)

Dynamics of Fasciola hepatica and vector snail populations after an extreme summer drought event in Denmark.

Author(s): Mita Eva Sengupta, Leah Lourenço, Nao Takeuchi-Storm, Stig Milan Thamsborg and Anna-Sofie Stensgaard
Published in: Annals of Parasitology 70(1), Issue EMOP 2024 Abstract Book, 2024, Page(s) 78, ISSN 2300-6706
Publisher: The Polish Parasitological Society

Application of environmental DNA-based monitoring of vector snails and liver fluke transmission across different field settings along a latitudinal gradient from Denmark to South Africa.

Author(s): Sengupta, ME., Malatji, MP., Ngcamphalala, PI., Mukaratirwa, S, Ciuca, L., Maurelli, MP., Bosco, A., Rinaldi, L., Materu, G, Kinunghi, S., Adriko, M., Mugisha, L., and Stensgaard, A-S.
Published in: Annals of Parasitology 70(1), Issue EMOP 2024 Abstract Book, 2024, Page(s) 78, ISSN 2300-6706
Publisher: The Polish Parasitological Society

Insights into diagnosis of liver and rumen flukes in cattle within the PREPARE4VBD EU project

Author(s): Maurelli MP, Bosco A, Ciuca L, Vitiello P, Cringoli G, Rinaldi L
Published in: 76th Sisvet Congress (21-23 June 2023), 2023
Publisher: n/a

Investigating the impact of heat stress on Fasciola intermediate host snail immune defenses and life history traits across a latitudinal gradient (Denmark, Italy, Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa).

Author(s): J. Upfold , ME. Sengupta , G. Materu, S. Kinunghi, C. Kalinda, A. Dube, T. Manyangadze, M. Chimbari, S. Mukaratirwa, M. Adriko, L. Mugisha, L. Ciuca, L. Rinaldi, and A-S. Stensgaard.
Published in: Annals of Parasitology 70(1), Issue EMOP 2024 Abstract Book, 2024, Page(s) 78, ISSN 2300-6706
Publisher: The Polish Parasitological Society

A citizen-science-based approach to mosquito monitoring - experiences from a car-netting project in Denmark.

Author(s): Sengupta, ME, Svenningesen, CS, Toettrup, A., Thorhauge-Thejl, E., and Stensgaard, A-S.
Published in: Annals of Parasitology 70(1), Issue EMOP 2024 Abstract Book, 2024, Page(s) 78, ISSN 2300-6706
Publisher: Polish Parasitological Society

PREPARE4VBD: Snail borne infections in cattle in southern Italy -new insights into the biology and diagnosis of liver flukes.

Author(s): Ciuca L, Hammami I, Maurelli MP, Bosco A, Vitiello P, Rinaldi L.
Published in: 25th International Congress of the Mediterranean Federation for Health and Production of Ruminants, Issue Proceedings, 2023, Page(s) 31-32, ISSN 2421-4558
Publisher: Ruminantia

Fasciola hepatica and Lymnaeidae host snails in southern Italy.

Author(s): Maurelli MP, Ciuca L, Hammami I, Vitiello P, Bosco A, Rinaldi L.
Published in: Annals of Parasitology 70(1), Issue EMOP 2024 Abstract Book, 2024, Page(s) 78, ISSN 2300-6706
Publisher: The Polish Parasitological Society

Babesia infections in dogs and wild canids: where do we stand today?

Author(s): Ciuca L, Oliva G, Gizzarelli M, Foglia Manzillo V, Rinaldi L, Maurelli MP
Published in: Proceedings of the XXXIII Congress of the Italian Society of Parasitology (SoIPa), Issue 33rd National congress of Italian Society of Parasitology, 2024, Page(s) 86, ISBN 978-88-943575-1-6
Publisher: Italian Society of Parasitology (SoIPa)

Investigation of Ixodes ricinus tick infections and associated microbiome composition across a variety of human-impacted landscapes in two macro-climatic zones.

Author(s): Sengupta ME, Verhoeven, J.T.P., Maurelli, M.P., Ciuca, L., Bosco, A., Rinaldi, L., Hansen, A.J. and Stensgaard, A-S
Published in: Annals of Parasitology 70(1), Issue EMOP 2024 Abstract Book, 2024, Page(s) 78, ISSN 2300-6706
Publisher: The Polish Parasitological Society