Perspectives Posted on 2019-04-30 18:48:01
Roadmap for zoonotic tuberculosis
A ‘One Health’ initiative to combat zoonotic tuberculosis
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Authors
Amina Benyahia(1), Anna S. Dean(2), Ahmed El Idrissi(3), Elisabeth Erlacher-Vindel(4), Simona Forcella(5), Paula I. Fujiwara(6), Glen Gifford(7)*, Juan Lubroth(8), Francisco Olea-Popelka(9,10) & Gregorio Torres(11)
The above people were members of a core writing team for the Roadmap for Zoootic Tuberculosis. See the Roadmap for Zoonotic Tuberculosis for a complete list of contributors.
* Corresponding author: g.gifford@oie.int
(1) Scientist, Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses, World Health Organization (WHO).
(2) Technical Officer, Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization (WHO).
(3) Senior Animal Health Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
(4) Head, Antimicrobial Resistance and Veterinary Products Department, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
(5) Policy Officer, DG SANTE, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
(6) Scientific Director, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
(7) Chargé de mission, Antimicrobial Resistance and Veterinary Products Department, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
(8) Chief Veterinary Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
(9) Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Studies, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
(10) Zoonotic TB Sub-Section, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
(11) Acting Head of the Science Department, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
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Global initiatives to address bovine and zoonotic tuberculosis* are coordinated through a Tripartite (FAO/OIE/WHO) partnership and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) [1]. In 2017, the OIE, WHO, FAO, and The Union, jointly launched the first Roadmap for Zoonotic Tuberculosis [2, 3, 4, 5, 6], outlining a plan to combat zoonotic tuberculosis using a One Health approach.
The roadmap’s three core themes are to:
a) improve the scientific evidence base
b) reduce transmission at the animal–human interface
c) strengthen intersectoral and collaborative approaches.
Ten priority areas are highlighted under these core themes. Addressing these areas will require: improving surveillance and diagnosis, addressing research gaps, improving animal health and food safety to reduce the risk to people, increasing awareness, fostering One Health approaches, and advocating for investment to support the control of bovine and zoonotic tuberculosis.
The OIE contributes to addressing these priority areas through its publication of harmonised international technical standards [7, 8] and related information; an extensive scientific network of Collaborating Centres and Reference Laboratories [9]; its management of a project for the production and evaluation of an international reference standard bovine tuberculin; its management of a global animal disease monitoring and reporting system, WAHIS [10]; and its development of training and capacity-building programmes for Veterinary Services.
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* ‘zoonotic TB’ refers to disease caused by M. bovis infection in people and ‘bovine TB’ refers to disease caused by M. bovis infection in animals
http://dx.doi.org/10.20506/bull.2019.1.2910
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