Researchers from CReSA and CRESIB Explore Collaboration Opportunities

Researchers from ISGlobal's research centre, CRESIB, and CReSA, Centre for Research in Animal Health, met in Bellaterra, Barcelona on November 12 to explore different ways to work together and discuss the facilities available at CReSA. The concept "one world, one health", which recognizes the need for an integrated approach to worldwide collaboration in all aspects of health care for humans and animals, was a central theme of the meeting.

CReSA researchers presented their research work and discussed the latest advances in the fields of arboviruses and arthropod vectors, avian flu, bacterial zoonotic diseases, antibiotic resistance, veterinary epidemiology and risk analysis. CRESIB researchers, in turn, discussed the relationship between mosquitoes, malaria and microclimate, antibiotic resistance and its link to food and animals, and leishmaniasis.

Another important subject dealt with at the meeting was the importance of the facilities available at CReSA, which has, for example, a level 3 biosecurity laboratory (BSL-3) to study agents that infect humans and pathogens designated as notifiable by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).