Our first year of the PARAGONE project has been focussed on expressing and purifying the recombinant proteins for vaccine trials for the liver fluke parasite, Fasciola hepatica. Of the three proteins between produced by Queen’s University Belfast (the fourth protein…
The first Fasciola hepatica PARAGONE group meeting was held at IRNASA-CSIC in the beautiful city of Salamanca.
My first year in PARAGONE project has been very productive, not only because of the good results we have obtained, but for my personal experience too. Last summer, I spent a week the Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh, where I…
Use of a multiple choice questionnaire to assess UK prescribing channels' knowledge of helminthology and best practice surrounding anthelmintic use in livestock and horses. Easton S, Bartley DJ, Hotchkiss E, Hodgkinson JE, Pinchbeck GL, Matthews JB. Prev Vet Med. 2016,…
This has been a very productive year at the Moredun. I have enjoyed the opportunity of meeting the PARAGONE partners and collaborating with some of them, looking into new methods to improve their vaccines. As such, most of my work…
Dr Harry Wright, Moredun Research Institute Team The first year of the PARAGONE project has been an extremely rewarding experience. I have been producing and preparing vaccine antigens for trials in Gran Canaria and in Belgium. I was fortunate enough…
Guo Z, Gonzales JF, Hernandez JN, McNeilly TN, Corripio-Miyar Y, Frew D, Morrison T, Yu P, Li, RW. Scientific Reports 2016 6:26200. Haemonchus contortus is one of the most economically important parasites affecting small ruminants worldwide. The parasite resides in…
Ernesto Rodríguez, Verónica Noya, Laura Cervi, María Laura Chiribao, Natalie Brossard, Carolina Chiale, Carlos Carmona, Cecilia Giacomini, Teresa Freire ABSTRACT Helminths express various carbohydrate-containing glycoconjugates on their surface, and they release glycan-rich excretion/secretion products that can be very important in their life cycles,…
Gabriela Maggioli, Gualberto Bottini, Tatiana Basika, Pablo Alonzo, Gustavo Salinas, Carlos Carmona ABSTRACT The liver fluke Fasciola hepatica remains an important agent of food-borne trematode disease producing great economic losses due to its negative effect on productivity of livestock grazing in temperate…
Dr Dan Price, Moredun Research Institute I joined Moredun Research Institute a little over 12 months ago and have been working full-time on the European Union funded Horizon 2020 PARAGONE project. The project aims to move prototype vaccines for animal…