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2005年11月 22日 星期二
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EU - The EU Sixth Framework project on porcine circovirus disease (PCVD) initiated in December 2004 is now fully operational. The project is being delivered by a multidisciplinary consortium from academia and industry with a total of 15 partners from North America and the EU.
The overall budget is in excess of 6 million euro of with an EU contribution to this project of 3.45 million euro. Full information is available on the project website (www.pcvd.org). The website is available in English and Spanish and project partners are working on translating key elements into other EU languages.
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All the work packages have been initiated and are progressing satisfactorily. All the partners are pro-actively contributing to the work programme. The project website (www.pcvd.org) has recently been updated with progress reports from the work package managers.
The project consortium has agreed a much-needed case definition of PMWS Now that this definition is in place detailed epidemiological studies can proceed within the consortium using agreed diagnostic criteria. The case definition can be found on the project website (www.pcvd.org). The PCVD consortium would welcome feedback on their case definition of PMWS.
A new expanded PCVD project will be launched in January 2006 that will bring together the EU New Member States and Accession Countries into an information dissemination and training network. This new project will be funded under a Specific Support Action from Brussels.
Further Information
For more information, please visit our PMWS Technical Zone
Source: www.pcvd.org - 21st November 2005





