Institute for new and novel animal disease pathogens
| Institute for new and novel animal disease pathogens | |
|---|---|
| Category: | Federal Research Institute |
| Carrier: | Friedrich Loeffler Institute |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Higher federal authority |
| Seat of the wearer: | Greifswald , Riems Island |
| Facility location: | Riems Island |
| Type of research: | Departmental research |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Veterinary medicine , infectious diseases |
| Basic funding: | Federal Government ( BMELV ) |
| Management: | Martin H. Groschup |
| Homepage: | www.fli.bund.de |
The Institute for New and Novel Animal Disease Pathogens (INNT) is a research facility of the Federal Republic of Germany, which is part of the legally independent higher federal authority Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) on the island of Riems . The FLI also bears the additional designation “Federal Research Institute for Animal Health”. The institute primarily conducts departmental research for the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection . The research tasks are in the field of veterinary medicine and infectious diseases .
history
The institute for new and novel animal disease pathogens is one of four research facilities on the island of Riems, whose history goes back to the virologist Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915) and to the year 1910.
With its foundation in 2001 due to the BSE crisis, this institute is the youngest of the Loeffler institutes.
- A detailed chronology of the institutes on the island of Riems is shown in the section "History" in the article Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut .
research
In the area of research, INNT is primarily concerned with studies to improve and develop new detection methods for BSE and scrapie and investigations into the typification of European BSE and scrapie isolates from ruminants. There were transgenic mouse models for analyzing the transferability of TSE agents across species boundaries, and the importance of glycosylation of prion - protein developed.
The institute houses the national BSE sample bank (part of the national TSE platform) and systematically collects suspicious samples and other samples from allegedly exposed animals, which are made available to other German TSE working groups on request and in coordination with the research platform.
In addition to TSE diseases, new infectious diseases ( Emerging Infectious Diseases ) are also examined at the INNT. Examples of this are the Nipah virus and the Hendra virus . Since protection level 4 (BSL-4) is necessary for working with these highly virulent viruses , the investigations must initially be limited to biochemical and molecular biological issues and the establishment of diagnostic detection methods .
Reference laboratories
The National Reference Laboratories (NRL) perform extensive sovereign tasks in the sense of monitoring and improving the diagnosis of notifiable animal diseases , notifiable animal diseases and zoonoses .
The INNT also acts as the national reference laboratory for BSE and scrapie diagnostics. This means that all suspected cases occurring in rapid BSE test by the NRL to the guidelines in accordance with World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the EU legislation (Regulation (EC) no. 999/2001) are checked.
In addition, the approval of BSE rapid tests and the continuous batch control and batch release of these rapid tests takes place.