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Research into Zoonoses
The Centre's main role is to encourage inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional research into zoonoses. Our research interests include:
Food-borne zoonotic pathogens and the VTRI
The Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Liverpool, has been awarded £4.2M for a package of interdisciplinary research and training focussed on the epidemiology of food-borne zoonotic infections.
The Veterinary Training Research Initiative (VTRI) aims to fill this knowledge gap by encouraging both student and practising vets to buy into the objectives of the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy 2004 and get involved in the kind of ground-breaking research that could prevent or halt outbreaks of animal disease - and equip the profession with better tools to tackle them when they do occur.
More about food-borne zoonotic pathogens and the VTRI
Infectious disease ecology in wildlife
We've undertaken research into:
- the ecology of rodent infections
- antibiotic resistance in wildlife
- the transmission and evolution of enteric zoonoses.
- More about infectious disease ecology in wildlife.
antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly important problem in farm animal and human medicine.The increased prevalence of resistance is assumed to be largely due to selection through the use of antibiotics.
There is considerable ignorance, however, about the original sources of both the resistant strains and the genetic elements which encode resistance, and the dynamics and persistence of resistance under different antibiotic-application regimens.
More about antibiotic resistance.
