NR AXYH
AU Vitale,M.; Schiavo,M.R.; Catanzaro,A.; Vitale,F.; Caracappa,S.
TI Epidemiology and Surveillance Activity to Prevent TSE Risk in Sicilian Island
QU International Conference - Prion 2007 (26.-28.9.2007) Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Book of Abstracts: Epidemiology, Risk Assessment and Transmission P04.77
IA http://www.prion2007.com/pdf/Prion Book of Abstracts.pdf
PT Konferenz-Poster
AB
In Sicily the first two cases of clinical BSE had been observed and confirmed on two limousine animals in 1994; the two animals had been imported from Great Britain 6 months before clinical signs appearance and so they are not considered as autochthon cases. Sicily has also the only confirmed case of human BSE in Italy. Active surveillance program by rapid diagnosis test had been started since January 2001 for bovine population and since April 2002 for goat and sheep. Rapid diagnosis had been performed by Prionics western blot up to june 2003 and by chemiluminiscent ELISA Enfer since then. This activity resulted in 6 confirmed positive cows on a total of more than 163.000 BSE tests; all positive animals did not show any clinical signs and had been regularly slaughtered. TSE surveillance had shown 25 scrapie outbreaks in sheep and almost 12 outbreaks in goats on a total of more then 65.000 animals tested. Only one ovine outbreaks had been detected by clinical signs. For consumer health protection a plan to control also animal feed had been active since the end of 2000 to control feed-ban. On a total of 1299 analysis, 1035 regarded feed for ruminant population and 264 for non-ruminant. All but two resulted negative. The analysis are currently performed by official microscopic method.
The results show the efficiency of control program to guarantee food safety preventing illegal circulation and contamination of meat meals in animal feed and BSE risk on meat consumers.
AD M. Vitale, M.R. Schiavo, A. Catanzaro, F. Vitale, S. Caracappa, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia, Italy
SP englisch
PO Schottland