iDengue

The proposed ultimate end product of this study is to build a Dengue disease outbreak detection system in the form of a mathematical model, based on previously designed individual prediction models, which incorporates all the possible identified factors influencing the occurrence of dengue cases such as environmental factor (rural or urban, population density), vector (species, migration, behavior) and the viral metagenomics (type of strain, pathogenecity, genetic profile) – all correlating to the climate profile by which, as stated earlier, the major factor affecting both the extrinsic and intrinsic factors for the disease transmission. The Dengue prediction model will provide an early warning system on areas in which for example there is slight temperature increase – if it is factored in the model, the increase in temperature within the system would consequently show its effects on vector, virus and environment which as a whole would predict possible outbreaks. This will provide the area of interest early warning and subsequent measure for control and prevention.

COLLABORATING AGENCY:
National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan


Ongoing Projects

3-D Targets: The UK Philippines Dengue Diagnostics and Drug Targets Research Consortium

HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance Library and Development of Molecular Diagnostics for Drug-Resistance Detection- Part 1: Surveillance of Mutations for Acquired Drug Resistance

Dengue: Climate, Evolution and Transmission

Improving the Molecular Diagnostics of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

Responding to the Philippine HIV epidemic: an HIV drug resistance surveillance library and development of molecular diagnostics for drug-resistance detection:Part 2: Analysis and prevalence of pre-treatment drug resistance

News

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING FOR BIOSAFETY OFFICERS

The UPM - IBBC is organizing a Training Program for Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Officers to commence in the second quarter of 2016. The main objective of the program is to develop a pool of local trainers who will undertake advocacy and continuing education on laboratory biosafety and biosecurity. At the end of the training, the trainers are expected to be competent in the following areas:

*Biosafety and biosecurity risk assessment *Laboratory vivarium Biosafety and Biosecurity *Biocontainment practices and procedures *Biocontainment facilities *Use of safety equipment *Incident response procedures *Infectious substance transport *Biosafety program management *Management of transgenic materials *Regulatory framework of transgenic materials

The training will entail at least ten modules, each of which with duration of two weeks, scheduled on July 18-29, 2016; September 18- October 1, 2016; and November 20- December 3, 2016.

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