Jan 16, 2024
Version 2
Practical Guide to Live Sampling of Livestock and Wildlife for Infectious Disease Surveillance V.2
- 1School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Protocol Citation: Stefano Catalano 2024. Practical Guide to Live Sampling of Livestock and Wildlife for Infectious Disease Surveillance. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vzxro8gx1/v2Version created by Stefano Catalano
Manuscript citation:
Catalano Stefano, Valitutto Marc T., Ryan-Castillo Emilie, Diallo Mariama D., Kann Boubacar, Hammer Charlotte C., Konate Yacouba, Camara Mohamed M., Camara Aboubacar, Diallo Mamadou O., Magassouba Mohamed, Sow Amadou, Sylla Abou, Dramou Simone, Keita Sine, Kondiano Marcel S., Kouyaté Abdoulaye O., Ribeiro Rita, Faust Christina L., Carlin Ellen P., Sarr Maryam, Barry Alpha M., & Standley Claire J. 2024. Practical guide to live sampling of livestock and wildlife for infectious disease surveillance. protocols.io. https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vzxro8gx1/v2
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: Working
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Created: January 16, 2024
Last Modified: January 16, 2024
Protocol Integer ID: 93627
Funders Acknowledgement:
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, United States Department of Defense
Grant ID: HDTRA12110028
Abstract
Under- or misdiagnosed cases of disease caused by especially dangerous pathogens present public health and proliferation risks. Numerous studies have demonstrated that in low-resource settings, and particularly where malaria is endemic, patients presenting to healthcare facilities with febrile illness may not receive an accurate diagnosis due to, among other reasons, shortcomings in differential protocols and lack of available diagnostic tests. In Guinea, when patients present at the community or prefectural level with febrile illness, weaknesses in clinical differential protocols usually result in the patient being diagnosed with a common infection, notably malaria and occasionally typhoid, with no further testing performed. As such, acute febrile illness presents an unquantified and undifferentiated burden to the Guinean healthcare system. The specific challenge for public health authorities is that pathogens causing febrile episodes in the population, and the zoonotic transmission pathways that may drive them, have not been systematically nor comprehensively identified. Fever Project is a three-year research project with the objective to build capacity for threat reduction in Guinea and improve health security through an integrated approach to human and animal health for the identification of high-consequence aetiologies of acute febrile illness in humans. The project’s goals are to: I) identify the causative agents of acute febrile illness in humans in Guinea; II) uncover evidence for transmission of high-consequence zoonotic pathogens associated with acute febrile illness; III) investigate risk factors for acute febrile illness in humans, including exposure to domestic and peri-domestic animals; and IV) improve capacities for the detection of high-consequence pathogens associated with acute febrile illness.
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