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

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

Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

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

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

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

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 (3)

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

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

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