– This is one of the largest research projects of ticks and tick-borne infections in Scandinavia in recent years, says the project manager for Scand Tick Innovation Per-Eric Lindgren, research director of microbiology at the Medical diagnostics in Region Jönköping County and Professor in Medical Microbiology at Linköping University.
The main goal of the project is to reduce the number of tick-borne infections in both humans and in livestock and companion animals as well as to relieve / cure them with tick-borne infections in the Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak (ÖKS ) region.
Furthermore, the project will further develop and streamline a multi-disciplinary network that now includes eleven partners in the six-eight disciplines, to increase capacity and develop excellence in research tick-borne infections.
Milestones: prevent people and animals suffer from tick-borne infections through the development of secure and reliable information on mitigation actions and to ensure that this reaches those living in the region working on vaccine and drug development to ensure a fast, reliable and ekonomiskt- and environmentally sustainable diagnosis of tick-borne infections in humans and animals, creating improved treatment for the people (and animals) who are already affected by tick-borne infections.
In Scand Tick Innovation also included the veterinary the area of animal health and specific animal infections caused by tick-borne infections. Furthermore, the various infectious diseases and microbes extended to other than Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), also include Anaplasma, Rickettsia, Cand Neoerlichia, Bartonella and Babesia.
The Parties represent broad expertise from six different disciplines of life sciences (ecology / biology, veterinary medicine, public health, human medicine, molecular / microbiology and economics) who together identified as crucial in the EU’s fight diseases originating in animals.
EU Interreg Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak, has granted an overall budget of almost EUR 4.4 million for the three year project, which gets the same amount of public financing.
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