US trains Kazakhstan vet techs
Veterinary diagnosticians, technicians together with inspectors from the Republic of Republic of Kazakhstan convey received advanced grooming from U.S. of A. experts inwards molecular methods, biosafety measures together with diagnostic epidemiology.
The recent two-day workshop, led yesteryear the National Center for Foreign Animal together with Zoonotic Disease Defense, trained nine diagnosticians together with technicians from the Republic of Kazakhstan Veterinary Reference Laboratory, every bit good every bit 5 territorial inspectors from the republic’s Ministry of Agriculture.
The FAZD Center together with the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, headquartered inwards College Station, Texas, participated inwards the resultant inwards partnership alongside the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. Funding was provided yesteryear the U.S. of A. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service through its Scientific Exchange Fellowship program.
Two FAZD Center query fellows from Republic of Kazakhstan led the workshop. Dr Kalamkas Shampieva, caput of depository collections of microorganisms at Kazakhstan’s National Veterinary Reference Center, presented the epidemiological section. D. Samat Tyulegenov, assistant manager of molecular genetics at the National Veterinary Reference Center, presented the department on diagnostic detection.
Their presentations focused on brucellosis, a contagious illness that tin touching on cattle, goats, sheep, together with swine every bit good every bit humans. Brucellosis is considered to live on a high priority illness inwards Kazakhstan.
In belatedly 2011, Shampieva together with Tyulegenov spent 12 weeks inwards the U.S. of A. receiving grooming at Texas A&M University. Shampieva worked alongside FAZD Center epidemiologists patch Tyulegenov studied diagnostic detection at TVMDL.
Dr Heather Simmons, topic leader for pedagogy together with outreach, together with Dr Alfonso Clavijo, co-theme leader for biological systems, represented the FAZD Center at the workshop. Clavijo too represented TVMDL every bit its associate manager for scientific programs.
During their visit, Simmons together with Clavijo met alongside the primary veterinarian officeholder of the Ministry of Agriculture, the manager of the World Veterinary Reference Center, the manager of the General Republic Laboratory, together with the deputy chair of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Committee for Veterinary Surveillance together with Control.
Located inwards fundamental Asia, Republic of Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked province at 1.49 1000000 foursquare miles together with covers an expanse larger than all of Western Europe. Agriculture generates 5.82 pct of Kazakhstan’s gross domestic product. Its leading livestock products are dairy goods, leather, meat together with wool.
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