Beto better tools for diagnosis of infectious diseases
SOA
12
Internal project
Action 2 - Leading Institute: SSI
Project summary
BETO consortium develops, optimises and harmonises diagnostic tools and methods for infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance in animals. Selected diagnostic tools will be updated, improved and evaluated in collaboration across 30 partner institutes in 16 countries. What does a ‘better tool for the diagnosis of infectious disease’ look like? Stay tuned, BETO works both towards development of better tools as well as evaluating them.
Project objectives
- BETO develops, optimises and harmonises tools for diagnosis of infectious diseases and AMR in animals
- BETO establishes collaborations across institutes working on diagnostics
Outcomes and impacts
- New and updated tools for diagnosis of infectious diseases and AMR in animals
- Harmonisation to yield comparable data
- Research collaborations across Europe
Priority Area 2
Procedures, methodologies and tools to analyse animal health and welfareOperational objective (OO3)
To develop diagnostic procedures, methodologies and tools to support the surveillance of animal healthKey words
Publications
- Complete genome sequence of European bat lyssavirus 2 detected in a Daubenton’s bat in Finland
- Genome sequence of the Myxoma virus Borghi vaccine strain
- Exceptional Bluetongue virus (BTV) and Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) circulation in France in 2023
- No evidence of spread of Linda pestivirus in the wild boar population in Southern Germany