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UMU researchers say that training is the main preventive measure against zoonosis (20/02/2017)

An article published in the journal Plos One by researchers from the University of Murcia (UMU) has established that knowledge and prevention from the first courses of veterinary degree are key to avoid cases of zoonotic diseases in students of that degree.

In addition to highlighting the need to include in the first years of study subjects on hygiene measures and the use of personal protective equipment to be adopted by students, the article stresses the importance of updating the monitoring programs to advise those affected Or those susceptible to zoonoses.

To identify the various diseases transmitted directly by animals or pathological material used to which students are exposed, UMU researchers have conducted a review of 1,254 scientific papers generated in the last 55 years in 24 countries.

In the light of the data collected, the pathogens responsible for the zoonoses described in the present study were bacteria in 39 studies (62.9%), parasites in 12 studies (19.4%), viruses in 9 studies (14, 5%) and fungi in 2 (3.2%) of the selected articles.

One of the authors of the article, Antonio Sánchez López, professor of the Animal Health Department at the UMU, states that "although this study provides for the first time a review of zoonoses in Veterinary students, it should be borne in mind that data with The ones we have worked on do not correspond to the actual cases that have occurred, but are extracted from research papers, so we have detected that the information on zoonoses in these students is undervalued in the scientific literature. "

According to Professor Sánchez, the type of recommended measures are already being applied in the UMU, since the first courses of the degree and in the masters taught in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, students are trained in biosecurity and biological risks.

"Currently, work is in progress on the implementation of the protocols for action in these matters, on the occasion of the next visit to the end of the year of the European Association of Veterinary Education Establishments," he concludes.

Source: Universidad de Murcia

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