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April 23^rd, 2026

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Una bacteria marina conecta la conservación de los delfines con la salud humana

New article published in The Conversation

Un delfín nada desorientado, incapaz de flotar o dando vueltas en círculos, hasta quedar varado en la arena. Esta escena, que se repite en las costas del Mediterráneo cada año, parece a simple vista un problema puntual. Pero, en realidad, es un mensaje sobre la salud del océano y los riesgos a los que nos enfrentamos todos, humanos y animales, dentro de un mismo ecosistema… Read more

April 22^nd, 2026

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VI Animal Health Innovation Day: Innovation in Swine Health

What do we mean by trained immunity? Research in swine health

Oral communication in VI Animal Health Innovation Day: Innovación en Sanidad Porcina

April 20^th, 2026

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Localizan ADN de bacterias de tuberculosis humana en entornos de gorilas en libertad del Congo

Interview in Cultura Científica of Unidad de Cultura Científica. Oficina de Transferencia de Resultados de Investigación. Universidad Complutense

Un equipo internacional de investigación en el que participa la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) demuestra la presencia de ADN ambiental de Mycobacterium tuberculosis, la bacteria causante de la tuberculosis humana, en entornos de gorilas en libertad en la República Democrática del Congo.… Read more

XVIII congreso UCM de estudiantes de grado en Ciencias de la Salud

Communications in this event:

- Desafíos para el control de la peste porcina africana en el brote de Cataluña (2025-2026)

- Alerta en el Mediterráneo: ¿nuevo brote de Morbillivirus en cetáceos?

April 10^th, 2026

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African swine fever in wild boar: comparative histopathological and immunohistochemical characterization of attenuated and virulent genotype II isolates

PhD Thesis defense by Néstor Porras González at the VISAVET Centre of the Complutense University of Madrid

African swine fever (ASF) is a highly lethal viral disease that affects domestic and wild suids. Its capacity for transboundary spread makes it one of the greatest threats to animal health and the global swine production industry. The emergence of ASF in Europe and its sustained circulation among Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations have placed this species at the center of the disease’s epidemiology. This work focuses on genotype II of the ASF virus (ASFV), which is currently responsible for most outbreaks in Europe. Within this genotype, variants with different levels of virulence h… Read more

April 8^th, 2026

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Vigilancia silenciosa: salud de la fauna silvestre

Blogs Científicos Parque Nacional de la Sierra de Guadarrama publish this article

La salud de los ecosistemas no sólo reside en el estado de la vegetación, la abundancia y condición física de la fauna o la calidad del agua si no también en los microorganismos que existen en ellos y que juegan un papel determinante en su equilibrio. Algunos de estos microorganismos pueden ser patógenos para animales silvestres, ganado doméstico y/o el hombre y su monitorización se encuadra en el enfoque Una Salud (donde, hasta la fecha, se ha explorado más profundamente aspectos relacionados con la salud… Read more

April 2^nd, 2026

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Estimating the velocity and direction of African Swine Fever spread in wild boar populations in South Korea using Trend-Surface Analysis

PLoS ONE publish this investigation article

African swine fever (ASF) is a lethal disease of swine that has spread across Asia since its introduction in 2018. South Korea first reported the disease in September 2019 in domestic pigs, and since then, more than 4,000 cases have been reported in wild boars during its expansion up to August 2024. Due to the high number of ASF notifications in wild boars in South Korea, contrasted with their scarcity in most Asian countries, analyzing the spatiotemporal spread of the disease in a setting with active surveillance provides valuable insights. In this study, we performed a trend-surface analysis… Read more

International collaboration success in groundbreaking research revealing tuberculosis transmission risks between humans and African great apes

An innovative environmental sampling methodology reveals a concerning epidemiological link

An international team of researchers has recently published a pioneering study in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections demonstrating the presence of environmental DNA of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis, in habitats of wild gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.… Read more

6th EPIZONE Annual Meeting "Viruses on the move"

Communications in this event:

- Presentations of imdiTBap partners´results and discussion. APHA

- Development of a Suspension Microarray for the Genotyping of African Swine Fever Virus Targeting the SNPs in the C-Terminal End of the p72 Gene Region of the Genome

- African swine fever (ASF) in Africa. The role of the African indigenous pigs in the transmission of the disease

- Development of multispecie serological assays to detect antibodies specific of Mycobacterium bovis in Serum Samples

- Risk of African swine fever introduction into the European Union (EU) through wild boar pathway

March 24^th, 2026

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6th imdiTBap meeting

Communications in this event:

- Presentations of imdiTBap partners´results and discussion. IUC

- Presentations of imdiTBap partners´results and discussion. IZSM-CReNBuf

- Presentations of imdiTBap partners´results and discussion. IZSLER

- Presentations of imdiTBap partners´results and discussion. UCD

- Presentations of imdiTBap partners´results and discussion. ISCIII

- Presentations of imdiTBap partners´results and discussion. VISAVET-UCM/EURL bTB

- General information about the project