Dear colleagues,

No doubt that seromonitoring is the only solution available right now to
scrutinize a vaccination program. Seromonitoring  following vaccination is
quite useful with several positive points. A local system with optimally
working laboratory is necessary for an effective monitoring. Additionally
there is a need to ensure that vaccination campaigns meet the standard
requirements.

Thanks.

Suresh Basagoudanavar


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Kivaria, Fredrick (FAOTZ) <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
>
> I would like to give a quick comment on the value of sero-monitoring
>
> In the majority of our countries animal health surveillance system is
> based on what I call "opportunistic surveillance system", whereby we wait
> for a livestock producer or livestock filed officer to report on an
> outbreak of a given disease. So what would be the value of  sero-monitoring
> in such a situation? On the other hand vaccination campaigns are rarely
> done as per the standard prescriptions, greatly jeopardizing the value of
> either pre or post monitoring vaccination. To me the most practical
> approach would be "scouting" for the disease, vaccinate the surrounding
> population at risk least twice on the yearly basis as per the standard
> prescriptions ... and move forward!
>
>
>
> Dr. Mtui could you comment whether sero-monitoring was ever useful in the
> just collapsed CBPP rollback plan in Tanzania?
>
>
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> *From:* Establishment of a PPR Global Research and Expertise Network
> (PPR-GREN) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Niwael
> Mtui
> *Sent:* 18 February 2014 15:52
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Seromonitoring after vaccination - how useful is it?
>
>
>
> Dear all
> I support John
> Sero-monitoring is important and this need to be combined with clinical
> surveillance have a good case definition in place. The monitoring need be
> to targeted and results have to be released timely for improving efficiency
> of future campaigns
>
>
>
>
> Niwael J. Mtui-Malamsha, PhD
> Principal Vet Officer - PPR Control,
> Directorate of Veterinary Services,
> Tanzania
>
>
>
> On Monday, 17 February 2014, 11:23, J ANDERSON <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> I disagree with Paul and would suggest seromonitoring proved very
> enlightening in some countries. I realise it is expensive but perhaps in
> future campaigns we will use a more focused approach, not the blanket
> vaccination employed in the early stages of PARC, PACE and GREP, in which
> case seromonitoring is essential to monitor the performance of the
> vaccination teams and the cold-chain. Otherwise you could be living in a
> fools paradise erroneously believing  the animals are immune. In Tanzania
> seromonitoring identified a number of issues which, once identified, were
> easily rectified. Seromonitoring may not be needed throughout the
> vaccination campaign but really useful in the early stages to ensure all
> teams are operating optimally. As Paul mentioned this also gives the
> Laboratories a chance to gain expertise and ensure all assays are working
> optimally
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Professor John Anderson MBE
>
> Retired Head of Pirbright Laboratory and the World Reference Laboratory
> for Morbilliviruses
>
>
>
> *From:* Paul Rossiter <[log in to unmask]>
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 13 February 2014, 9:31
> *Subject:* Seromonitoring after vaccination - how useful is it?
>
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
>
>
> Although mentioned once or twice in passing we haven't heard much about
> seromonitoring during the conference.
>
>
>
> As some participants know I am not greatly in favour of seromonitoring as
> a general follow-up to vaccination campaigns.  It is expensive, the
> results usually arrive too late to be of use, and when they do arrive in
> time there are insufficient resources for a re-vaccination.  I know it
> has an important role in disease investigation where vaccine failure is a
> possibility and is obviously needed for epidemiological studies but as a
> routine accompaniment  to vaccination.....mmm?  In rinderpest eradication
> we did a lot of sero-monitoring but I reckon that the most useful thing to
> come out of it was to train the laboratories to high levels of competence
> for the much more important sero-surveillance when vaccination ceased.
> Money saved on seromonitoring can be used for extra epidemiology such as
> disease search etc.
>
>
>
> Would anyone care to put me right on this?
>
> regards,- Moderator.
>
>
>
>
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