i-4-1 Health.

The i-4-1-Health project is aimed at the prevention of infectious diseases and the combat against antibiotic resistance in both humans and animals (One Health) in the border region Flanders-Netherlands. Bacteria are showing an increased resistance against antibiotics. This makes the efficient treatment of infectious diseases more difficult leading to illness, mortality and increased health care costs. The underlying reasons include all parts of the society, like health care, population, agriculture, and the environment. Collaboration with the different disciplines and sectors in the border region is needed to prevent the spread of pathogens. The 26 partners will in a similar way provide insight into the risks of infection, antibiotic use and DNA of resistant bacteria with help of apps and a platform for advances molecular biology analyses. These innovative tools help to map the antimicrobial resistance in the stock farming, the human population and the public health sector. In this way the routes of infection diseases can be traced prematurely and related risks for the society can be minimized. Main objective of this project is the installment of a sustained collaboration that can be further extended in the future.

Keywords:MICROBIOLOGY

Disciplines:Microbiology, Systems biology, Laboratory medicine, Public health care, Public health sciences, Public health services

Project type:Collaboration project