 CABS - Brucellosis Research at www.uwyo.edu/enr/cabs
Consortium for the Advancement of Brucellosis Science (CABS)
A Scientific Synthesis to Inform Policy and Research
CABS Science Advisory Team September 2009 meeting in Denver.
The mission of CABS is to identify gaps in current research, secure funding, award research grants, and conduct outreach for the advancement of brucellosis science worldwide.
Overview
The Consortium for the Advancement of Brucellosis Science (CABS) is a cooperative research and outreach effort among scientists and stakeholders. The CABS has been formed to provide broad scientific guidance to research efforts it supports with a focus on immunology, vaccines, and diagnostic tests. The ultimate goal of the CABS is to work toward successful brucellosis disease control and prevention, and to conduct stakeholder outreach.
This initiative will involve in-depth research under CABS that will be conducted at Bio-security Level 3 veterinary disease laboratories in the United States, including the new BSL3 facility in Laramie, Wyoming. The depth of analysis that the CABS proposes can only be accomplished by harnessing the collective knowledge of widely respected research scientists with intimate knowledge of brucellosis vaccine and delivery technologies and practices and policies in their respective regions. Equally as important, the project will be accomplished with stakeholder input, and adaptive research strategies, with the outcomes of the analyses widely disseminated and available to policy makers, disease control agencies, as well as stakeholders impacted by brucellosis across the world.
Members of the CABS Science and Stakeholder Advisory Teams
Facilitation and Institute Staff
Frank Galey, Director of CABS, Professor, Dean, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, fgaley@uwyo.edu, (307) 766-4133
Walk Cook, CABS Project Coordinator, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, wecook@uwyo.edu, (307) 766-3372
Jill Lovato, Assistant Director, Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, jillberg@uwyo.edu, (307) 760-5146
Chamois Andersen, Research Assistant, Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Cander50@uwyo.edu, (307) 766-2604
Background
UW Ag College Position Coordinates Brucellosis Research (UW NEWS RELEASE)
A New Direction for the Bovine Brucellosis Program (APHIS concept paper)
United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) Resolution (click here) This resolution was approved by the USAHA's Committee on Brucellosis during their October 2009 meeting in San Diego, California.
Wyoming Stock Growers Association and Wyoming Wool Growers Assocation Joint Resolution (click here) This resolution was approved by the WSGA/WWGA during their joint conference in December 2009 in Casper, Wyoming.
The Laramie Agenda - Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area (a scientific workshop held in 2005.)
The CABS project has been designed to further the efforts of the Laramie Agenda, a meeting held in 2005 at the University of Wyoming with more than 40 international animal disease experts and over 80 stakeholders from across the United States and Canada. The meeting was sponsored by the United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) and received bipartisan support and was jointly underwritten by the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture. The meeting had broad backing from the biotech industry and several regional and national livestock associations and wildlife organizations. The Laramie Agenda resulted in a roadmap for the development of improved vaccines, vaccine delivery and diagnostic testing for brucellosis in elk and bison in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA).
Key Brucellosis Links for Outreach and Information
Brucellosis Management in Wyoming Outreach and education for the Wyoming Governor's Brucellosis Coordination Team by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
Wyoming Livestock Board
Protecting Wyoming Livestock Industry for Today and the Future
Wyoming Department of Agriculture Brucellosis Information (Governor's Brucellosis Coordination Team) The Wyoming Department of Agriculture assists the citizens of Wyoming to live safe and healthy lives, promote and preserve our agricultural community, be responsible stewards of our natural resources, and achieve integrity in the marketplace.
The goal of the GYIBC to protect and sustain the existing free-ranging elk and bison
populations in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) and protect the public interests and economic
viability of the livestock industry in the States of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Toward this goal it is the Mission of the GYIBC to facilitate the development and implementation of brucellosis management plans for elk and bison, and their habitat, in the GYA.
APHIS works in a variety of ways to protect and improve the health, quality, and marketability of our nation's animals (including various wildlife), animal products, and veterinary biologics.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is a multi-faceted Agency with a broad mission area that includes protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, regulating genetically engineered organisms, administering the Animal Welfare Act and carrying out wildlife damage management activities. These efforts support the overall mission of USDA, which is to protect and promote food, agriculture, natural resources and related issues.
The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA), the nation's animal health forum for over a century, is a science-based, non-profit, voluntary organization. Its 1,400 members are state and federal animal health officials, national allied organizations, regional representatives, and individual members. USAHA works with state and federal governments, universities, veterinarians, livestock producers, national livestock and poultry organizations, research scientists, the extension service and seven foreign countries to control livestock diseases in the United States. USAHA represents all 50 states, 4 foreign countries and 34 allied groups serving health, technical and consumer markets.
Documents and Resources
Brucellosis in the American Bison and Related Wildlife Bibliography, Center for Bison Studies, Montana State University (1993) S.E. Knapp, S.E. Marley, S.M. Button & M.C. Rognlie
Veterinary Molecular Biology Laboratory, Montana State University-Bozeman, Bozeman, Montana.This bibliography is the second in a series that catalogs much of the information and research that has been published on parasites and diseases in the American bison. In this volume we have included articles, mostly ones published in scientific journals, that mention, in combination, the American bison, brucellosis and the disease as it occurs in North America. We have not included articles about brucellosis in other animals if bison are not mentioned or about brucellosis in wildlife from countries outside of Canada and the United States.
This summary documents the additions and changes made to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement released to the public in June 1998 that are now contained in volume 1 of the final environmental impact statement. Original text from the Draft Environmental Impact Statement is shown in black, while changes and additions to the draft are shown in green.
Brucellosis, a bacterial disease, was first noted in the Greater Yellowstone Area in 1917 and has been a chronic presence there since then. This book reviews existing scientific knowledge regarding brucellosis transmission among wildlife, particularly bison, elk, and cattle, in the Greater Yellowstone Area. It examines the mechanisms of transmission, risk of infection, and vaccination strategies. The book also assesses the actual infection rate among bison and elk and describes what is known about the prevalence of Brucella abortus among other wildlife.
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