Annual Meeting of National African Swine Fever Laboratories. Pulawy, Poland. May 18th 2010.

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Director of the Stwowy Instytut Weterynaryjn (NVRI, Poland) ASF: A General Overview

• African Swine Fever: The last adventure. José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno, OIE Reference Laboratory (Spain)
• Opening the ASF meeting. Policy Paper. Vaccine and/or diagnostic banks for major animal diseases: strategic planning options for emergency situations or major crises. Klaus Depner, SANCO, EC
  
  Organization details
  Pulawy and CRL*
  
  Session I.
  Chairman: Klaus Depner, SANCO, EC
  Introduction Lectures
   
• Production and health control of pigs in Poland Zygmunt Pejsak, NVRI (Poland)
• European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) opinion on ASF Frank Koenen (member AHAW-panel EFSA, Belgium)
  
  Session II. EU Country Reports
  Chairman: Margarida Duarte (Pt)
   
• African Swine Fever situation in Italy Gian Mario De Mia, (Italy)
• Current Situation in Caucasus region ASF current situation in the Russian Federation Alex Malogolovkin, (Russia)
  
  Session III. Report of the CRL activities
  Chairmen: Iwona Markowska(Poland) and Stephanie Schmeiser(De)
   
• Community Reference Laboratory for ASF (I): Main Activities during 2009-2010. Marisa Arias, (CRL, Spain)
• Community Reference Laboratory for ASF (II): Results of the Interlaboratory Comparison Test 2009.
  Carmina Gallardo (CRL, Spain)

Session IV. Epidemiology and Risk Assessment
Chairman: Siiri Poldma (Ee)

• Analysis of Risk Factors conditioning the persistence of African Swine Fever infection in Sardinia.
  Gian Mario De Mia(Italy)
  
  Session V. Diagnostic and antivirals
  Chairmen: Åse Uttenthal(Dk) and Joze Grom (Si)

• African Swine Fever Threat: Evaluating diagnostic tools with ASFV circulating strains. Carmina Gallardo (CRL, Spain)
• Storage and detection of ASFV DNA in clinical material collected on FTA cards. Jovita Fernández , (CRL, Spain)
• Development of an automated real-time multiplex PCR for simultaneous detection of Classical and African Swine Fever viruses. Helen Crooke, (UK)
• EPIZONE Ring Trial on ASFV real-time PCR Jovita Fernández (CRL,Spain)
• Evaluation of the in vitro activity of a selection of nucleoside and nucleotide analogues against the African swine fever virus. Marylène Tignon (Belgium)
• Conclusion and Recommendations. Klaus Depner (SANCO, EC), Marisa Arias and Carmina Gallardo (CRL, Spain)