A lecturer of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, VNUA won the Best Student Award of the ISERPD 2015 held in Kyoto, Japan.
Updated on 07:56, Monday, 17/08/2015 (GMT+7)
From 21 to 24 June 2015, the 7th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases (ISERPD 2015) was successfully held in Kyoto, Japan. This event is held every 4 years in the world's major countries. It was organized in the Asia for the first time and Japan was honored to host this 7th Symposium.The ISERPD 2015 drew attendance of over 1,000 participants from approximately 37 countries, including Vietnam. A total of 180 presentations and posters were presented at the Symposium. They mainly focused on Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED), Viral Diarrhea Diseases, trans-boundary infectious diseases (c.f. Foot and Mouth Disease; FMD, African swine fever; ASF etc.), swine Influenza, Porcine Circovirus Associated Diseases (PCVAD), economically significant pathogens in pigs (Mycoplasma, App, Brachyspira, Lawsonia, etc.), and potential emerging/re-emerging pathogens in pigs, etc (more information can be found at the website: http://emerging2015.com).
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Nguyen Van Diep, a lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Vietnam National University of Agriculture, currently a Phd candidate at the University of Miyazaki, Japan and his colleagues brought to the ISERPD 2015 with an excellent presentation on "Molecular epidemiology andgenetic characteristicsof thePorcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus - PEDV”. He was proud to receive the Best Student Award, one of 7 outstanding awards judged by a Science Program Committee of the Symposium.
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