Animal disease, Human threat
Press interview in "El Mundo" newspaper with Professor José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno
Importance of Ecological Factors and Colony Handling for Optimizing Health Status of Apiaries in Mediterranean Ecosystems
New research article with CISA-INIA.
Detection of African Swine Fever Virus Antibodies in Serum and Oral Fluid Specimens Using a Recombinant Protein 30 (p30) Dual Matrix Indirect ELISA
New research article in PLoS One.
Research Visit in SUAT-VISAVET
IFAH Europe Conference 2016
The next 16th june will take place in Brussels the International conference: Animal health matters: will the legislation deliver?, organized by the IFAH-Europe federation (International Federation for Animal Health Europe). Prof. Sánchez-Vizcaíno will contribute with a speach about viruses in the session: why animal health matters.
X Modelling Week
We engage with the X Modelling Week at the Faculty of CC. Mathematics of the UCM from 13 to 17 June 2016.
The proposed problem consists on developing a video analysis system in real time for early detection of diseases in farms. For this work, 8 animals were continuously recorded for 4 weeks. During this period, the animals developed African swine fever (ASF) and we could notice clear signs of fatigue (which implies a motion reduction). The system perform image processing techniques based on mathematical-statistical techniques in order to identify and classify animal behaviour in their various states: eating, playing, sleeping or resting. Furthermore, the system detects abnormal behavior when the infection reaches its virulence moments for alert triggering.