Since 2016, the European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians (ESLAV) and the European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ECLAM) have organised an annual summer school. The summer school provides high quality training for laboratory animal veterinarians.The topic of this year`s summer school is “Diseases & Diagnostics of Animals used in Science”. Top internationally-recognised experts have been invited to cover the following topics:
• Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites; Non-infectious diseases
• Etiology, Epizootiology, Clinical Signs, Pathology, Diagnosis, Differential, Prevention and Control, and Research Complications
• Microbiological Quality Control for Laboratory Animals including sampling, tests and diagnostic program.All participants of the summer school will achieve the best of knowledge and will help disseminate the good practices learnt across their local animal facilities and their impact field. The program will address diseases of the following species: Mice, rats, other rodents, rabbits, ferrets, swine, farm animals, nonhuman primates, amphibians, zebrafish, avian, reptiles, and wild animals.