Research Programmes

Approximately 50% of the resources of Med-Vet-Net fund activeresearch projects with the aim of encouraging and enablingscientific integration.

Initially the scientific activities of the Network were basedaround four major thematic topics:

• epidemiology;
• detection and control;
• host­-microbe interactions;
• and risk research

Nine of the 11 research Workpackages initiated in Year 1 werecompleted in February 2006. A further 11 research Workpackages wereinitiated in line with the Strategic Scientific Plan developed inYear 1.

To date, an accumulative total of 29 manuscripts are publishedor in press in peer reviewed journals.