Hrvatski veterinarski institut

07/11/2024

We are pleased to share that our scientist dr.sc. Relja Becka and dr.sc. Sanja Duvnjak attended the 10th International Scientific Meeting “Days Of Veterinary Medicine” in Ohrid, North Macedonia from September 22nd to 25th. This event brought together researchers, veterinary practitioners, official veterinarians, professors, PhD and post-doctoral students, and students of veterinary medicine for fruitful discussions on the challenges and ongoing issues in veterinary medicine and science through plenary lectures, presentations, and poster exhibitions covering topics such as animal and public health, food hygiene, animal welfare, and environment. Workshops covered the latest innovations in veterinary science and practical challenges in small and large animal veterinary clinical practice. Dr.sc. Relja Beck participated as an invited speaker holding a plenary lecture entitled ''Tick-borne diseases in Western Balkan countries: from history to mystery'' (HRZZ-IP-2022-10-7842 AbaVec). Dr.sc. Sanja Duvnjak presented preliminary findings of the NextgenerationEU project ''SalmoSAFE'' through her presentation ''The use of FT-IR spectroscopy in the classification and typing of bacteria''. A big thank you to all the organizers and the participants for an eventful, fun, and truly fruitful conference both scientifically and socially. See you again next time!

28/10/2024

Earlier this month our scientist Valentina Kunić, DVM, attended the 9th European Rotavirus Biology Meeting conference in Valencia, Spain. The conference program provided new insights in everyday rotavirus research and up to date practices in rotavirus epidemiology, replication, link to gut microbiota, and more. Her poster presentation included research work titled "Porcine-originated Rotavirus A shows significant genetic heterogeneity and interspecies transmission potential" https://lnkd.in/dmfCy7tj , done in the scope of NPOO-4 "ROSA" (NextGenerationEU) and RECO project (UIP-2017-05-8580-Hrvatska zaklada za znanost (Croatian Science Foundation)) at Hrvatski veterinarski institut - Croatian Veterinary Institute. A big shout-out to all the organizers, presenters, and fellow researchers she had the pleasure of meeting. Until the next time!

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22/10/2024

Hrvatski veterinarski institut je aktivno sudjelovao na "13. Nacionalnoj konferenciji o sigurnosti i kakvoći pčelinjih proizvoda"- meduni i nove vrste meda, u Kastvu, 18.10.2024, znanstveno-stručnom skupu pod pokroviteljstvom krovnog Europskog pčelarskog saveza (European Beakeeping Association).
Djelatnica Hrvatskog veterinarskog instituta, Podružnice Veterinarskog zavoda Rijeka, stručna suradnica u sustavu znanosti, Dijana Mišetić Ostojić, prof., voditeljica Laboratorija za analitičku kemiju i rezidue, predstavila je rad Laboratorija kroz prezentaciju s temom "Bifloralni ili dualni med? Potencijalno nove kategorije meda?"

21/10/2024

From 16 to 18 October 2024 in Novi Sad, Serbia, took place 5th International Congress "Food Technology, Quality and Safety FoodTech 2024", organized by the Institute of Food Technology in Novi Sad. At this meeting Prof Ph D Jelka Pleadin presented an invited lecture entitled "Mycotoxins in cereals: Public health significance, occurrence and consumer exposure".
It was my great pleasure to participate and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the hosts for the invitation and excellently organized scientific meeting!

17/10/2024

22nd International Exhibition of Inventions „Arca 2024“

The 22nd International Exhibition of Inventions „Arca 2024“ was held in Zagreb from October 10 to 12, 2024, organized by the Union of Croatian Innovators. Employees of the Croatian Veterinary Institute, PhD Ivana Giovanna Zupičić, PhD Tina Lešić, and Marina Prišlin, DVM, visited the fair on October 11, 2024. At the exhibition, craftspeople, entrepreneurs, schools, universities, and others presented and promoted the results of applied research, innovative technologies, products, and more. Also, representatives of The Union of Croatian Innovators and of the State Intellectual Property Office were available for discussion and information. Employees of the Institute at the Exhibition, in order to raise awareness and improve knowledge about the protection of the Institute's intellectual property, provided information and discussed ways of implementing the Institute's ideas and innovations, as well as the protection and commercial use of inventions.

17/10/2024

Od 7. do 9. listopada dr.sc. Luka Jurinović i Biljana Ječmenica, mag. oecol. et prot. nat., doktorandica na uspostavnom HRZZ projektu Epidemiologija bakterije Campylobacter jejuni u galebova klaukavaca, Larus michahellis u Hrvatskoj, kroz koncept „Jedno zdravlje“ sudjelovali su na The 22nd International Workshop on Campylobacter, Helicobacter & Related Organisms, svjetskom kongresu o navedenim mikroorganizmima održanom u Perthu, Australija.

Luka Jurinović održao je pozvano predavanje s naslovom "Epidemiology of Campylobacter spp. in gulls in Croatia following the “One Health” concept”, dok je Biljana Ječmenica sudjelovala s posterom na temu “Occurence and genetic diversity of Campylobacter spp. in Yellow-legged Gulls, Larus michahellis in Croatia”.

Rezultati prikazani na kongresu rezultat su već spomenutog Uspostavnog HRZZ projekta te projekta “Pojavnost i genska raznolikost bakterija roda Campylobacter u morskim staništima (Campy C)“ financiranog iz sredstava Nacionalnog plana oporavka i otpornosti 2021. - 2026. (NPOO).

11/10/2024

Održan simpozij i objavljena znanstvena knjiga naslova „Hrvatske autohtone pasmine svinja – kvaliteta i sigurnost od sirovina do gotovih proizvoda“

U organizaciji Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti (HAZU), Zavoda za znanstveno istraživački rad Velika Gorica i Hrvatskog veterinarskog instituta u Zagrebu, dana 8. listopada 2024. u Velikoj Gorici održan je simpozij pod nazivom „Hrvatske autohtone pasmine svinja – kvaliteta i sigurnost od sirovina do gotovih proizvoda“. Tom prilikom predstavljeni su rezultati projekta koji je uključio istraživanje kvalitete i sigurnosti svježeg mesa i gotovih proizvoda triju hrvatskih autohtonih pasmina svinja – turopoljske svinje, banijske šare svinje i crne slavonske svinje.
Projekt je trajao dvije godine te je okupio znanstvenike najvećih ustanova Republike Hrvatske u području kvalitete i sigurnosti hrane životinjskog podrijetla – Hrvatskog veterinarskog instituta, Prehrambeno-biotehnološkog fakulteta te Agronomskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, s ciljem usporedbe kvalitete sirovina za proizvodnju te gotovih proizvoda od sve tri hrvatske autohtone pasmine svinja.
Na ovom skupu, temeljem rezultata istraživanja, održana su četiri predavanja od strane voditeljice i suradnika na projektu, te je predstavljena i znanstvena knjiga istog naziva kao i naziv projekta, a čiji su autori prof. dr. sc. Jelka Pleadin, akademik Željko Cvetnić, prof. dr. sc. Ivica Kos, prof. dr. sc. Nada Vahčić, izv. prof. dr. sc. Ivan Vnučec i dr. sc. Tina Lešić.
Simpozij i predstavljanje objavljene znanstvene knjige vodila je voditeljica projekta prof. dr. sc. Jelka Pleadin iz Hrvatskog veterinarskog instituta u Zagrebu, zahvalivši se HAZU što je prepoznala značaj ove problematike i financirala istraživanja, kao i Zagrebačkoj županiji na prihvaćenom sufinanciranju projekta.

09/10/2024

U Laboratoriju za bolesti akvatičnih životinja je od 30. rujna do 07. listopada boravio Santosh Lamichhane, doktorand iz Fish Pathobiology and Immunology Laboratory na Michigan State University, SAD. Njegov boravak organiziran je u okviru studijskog posjeta s ciljem razmjene znanja i iskustava u području bolesti akvatičnih životinja. Tijekom boravka, Santosh je zajedno s djelatnicima laboratorija posjetio šaransko ribogojilište Sišćani, gdje je imao priliku upoznati se s principima proizvodnje šarana u Hrvatskoj te steći uvid u specifične izazove i tehnike koje se primjenjuju u domaćoj industriji uzgoja riba. Kolega Lamichhane je održao predavanje pod nazivom „Determining susceptibility of Great Lakes Invasive Carps to emerging viral pathogens“ za djelatnike Hrvatskog veterinarskog instituta. Osim navedenih aktivnosti, Santosh je aktivno sudjelovao u izvođenju laboratorijskih metoda koje se redovito provode u Laboratoriju za bolesti akvatičnih životinja. Vjerujemo da će ovaj studijski posjet biti temelj za uspješnu buduću suradnju između Hrvatskog veterinarskog instituta i Michigan State University.

04/10/2024

Hrvatski veterinarski institut je bio suorganizator i aktivni sudionik V. Znanstveno-stručnog skupa s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem naziva „Prilagodbe na klimatske promjene i očuvanje morskih ekosustava Jadranskog mora“ koji je održan na Sveučilištu u Zadru od 26. do 29. rujna 2024. Dr.sc. Nina Bilandžić predstavila je NPOO projekt „Perfluoroalkilne tvari (PFASs) u životinjskim vrstama iz vodenih i kopnenih staništa te hrani životinjskog podrijetla: izloženost i procjena rizika hrvatskih potrošača (akronim: PFASsFoodWildlife)“. Dr.sc. Kristina Kvrgić predstavila je rad kroz posterr naslova „Ciklički imini u dagnjama iz uzgajališta južnog dijela istarskog poluotoka, Hrvatska“, dok je Dijana Mišetić Ostojić, prof. predstavila rad kroz poster „Utjecaj temperature mora na pojavnost bakterije Vibrio parahaemolyticus u školjkašima iz otpremnih centara“.

01/10/2024

We are pleased to have been involved in organizing the Power of Viruses 2024 conference, which was held from September 25th to 28th in Zadar, Croatia. This international event brought together leading scientists to discuss developments in virology.

We want to acknowledge the contributions of our team:
• Mirta Balenović as the conference secretary.
• Manuela Zadravec as a member of the organizing committee.
• Dragan Brnić as a member of the scientific committee.
• Lorena Jemeršić as an invited speaker.
• Lorena Jemeršić and Dragan Brnić as moderators of the Veterinary Virology section.
• Marina Prišlin Šimac, Margarita Božiković, Ivana Giovanna Zupičić, and Dorotea Grbin as the oral presenters, and Ivana Rončević as the poster presenter.
• All abstracts can be accessed through a link: https://hmd-cms.hr/power-of-viruses-2024/book-of-abstracts/.

👏 Congratulations to our outstanding team for their hard work and dedication!

24/09/2024

Congratulations to our colleagues and their collaborators on the publication of their paper entitled „Dietary exposure assessment to mycotoxins from traditional meat products in Croatia“.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the human exposure to the mycotoxins, including aflatoxins (AFs) B1, B2, G1 and G2 (AFB1, AFB2, AFG1, AFG2), ochratoxin A (OTA), cyclopiazonic acid (CPA), citrinin (CIT) and sterigmatocystin (STC), which may be present in traditional meat products (TMPs), using 288 samples available on the market in relation to the consumption data of Croatian citizens. AFs and CIT weren't detected in any sample, so the exposure to these mycotoxins in TMP can be considered negligible. The determined exposure to STC far below the exposure of low health concern set by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). For the consumer risk associated with CPA in food there isn't yet a health-based guideline value (HBGV). Although OTA was detected in a relatively small number of samples, it contributed to the exposure of TMP consumers. According to the Margin of Exposure (MoE) approach for OTA, a concern was identified in 0.12% of consumers for neoplastic effects in the case of the UB scenario, while a potential health risk was identified in 4.15% of consumers for non-neoplastic effects. Among the TMP categories, dry-fermented sausages contributed the most to consumer exposure for all three mycotoxins detected. Results indicate that mycotoxins presence should be monitored over a longer period of time where different data can be expected in order to observe the trend of human exposure.

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23/09/2024

From September 18 to 20, 2024, the 20th International Conference Ružička Days was held, representing the traditional meeting of experts and scientists in the fields of chemistry, chemical and biochemical engineering, food technology, and medical biochemistry, traditionally held in Vukovar. PhD Tina Lešić participated in this conference with a poster presentation on “Consumer Exposure Assessment to Cyclopiazonic Acid from Croatian Dry-Fermented Meat Products.” The results presented came from the HRZZ research project “Mycotoxins in Traditional Croatian Meat Products: Molecular Identification of Mycotoxin-Producing Moulds and Consumer Exposure Assessment” (TMPmouldRISK, 2018–2022), in which Tina Lešić was a PhD graduate, and which has now been completed.

The poster is available in the poster gallery at the following link: https://www.ruzickadays.eu/posteri.html

The abstract is available in the Book of Abstracts at the following link: https://www.ruzickadays.eu/knjiga_sazetaka.html

23/09/2024

Laboratorij za bolesti akvatičnih životinja je od 16. do 20. rujna ugostio Prof. Öznur Diler s Uygulamalı Bilimler Sveučilišta u Isparti, Turska. Posjet Prof. Diler bio je dio Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) u okviru COST BioAqua projekta, s ciljem poticanja suradnje među istraživačima.

Naše djelatnice koje su također sudionice COST BioAqua projekta su uz Prof. Diler provele istraživanje sa ciljem određivanja in vitro antibakterijskog djelovanja eteričnog ulja korijandera (Coriandrum sativum) na izolate bakterija Vibrio harveyi, Tenacibaculum maritimum i Aeromonas salmonicida izdvojenih iz riba uzgojenih u Jadranskom moru. Pozitivni rezultati ovog kratkog istraživanja predstavljaju mogućnost daljnjih istraživanja sa ciljem nalaženja novih načina liječenja bakterijskih bolesti u akvakulturi.

17/09/2024

From September 13-14, 2024, the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb hosted the "2nd Symposium on Analytical Atomic Spectrometry", which brings together experts in the field of atomic spectrometry/spectroscopy. The Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry is also involved in this field as part of its professional and scientific activities. PhD Nina Kudumija took part in this symposium with a poster presentation on "Mineral composition of fresh farmed European sea bass and Gilthead sea bream". The results presented came from the international research project "Enhancing Innovation and Sustainability in Adriatic Aquaculture" (AdriAquaNet, 2019-2022 .), in which PhD Nina Kudumija participated as an associate and which has now been completed (in 2023).

16/09/2024

Prof PhD Jelka Pleadin, a scientist at the Croatian Veterinary Institute, recently participated in the largest international conference in the field of food - the 22nd World Congress of Food Science and Technology, which took place during the period 8-12 September 2024 in Rimini, Italy. At the conference, on behalf of the group of authors, she presented the study „Comparative analysis of nutritive quality of European flat oyster (Ostrea Edulis) by growing seasons and cultivation sites in the Adriatic sea“. This study and participation at the conference was supported by the project Interreg Italy – Croatia „MARINET – MARIculture NETwork: Implementation of new technologies for diversified sustainable aquaculture targeting healthy society and competitive regions“ (ITHR0200334).

05/09/2024

Magda Kamber, an expert associate in the Laboratory for Diagnostics of Classical Swine Fever, Molecular Virology and Genetics and a collaborator of the Croatian One Health Project (CROOH) under monitoring and support by EFSA One Health surveillance subgroup, was selected by EFSA as a sponsored participant for the training course "Surveillance of mosquito and sand fly vector species, with a focus on pathogen detection”. The training took place from the 26th to the 29th of August in Schengen, Luxembourg and was organized by VectorNet, an ECDC and EFSA project whose database contains information on the European distribution of various mosquito, tick, sand fly and biting midge species that can be vectors of pathogens affecting human and animal health. West Nile virus has become endemic in Europe and beyond in recent decades and there is a risk of Rift Valley fever virus being introduced and occurring in the region as the responsible vectors are widespread in most EU countries. So the main topics of the training were introduction in biology, surveillance and methodology of identification of mosquito and sand fly vector species, as well as the principles and methods for detection of RVF, WN and Leishmania in vectors in order to help improve preparedness and response to vector-borne diseases.

21/09/2023

📻 Tema jutrošnje emisije U mreži prvog Hrvatskoga radija bila je afrička svinjska kuga.
O samoj bolesti govorila je izv. prof. dr. sc. Lorena Jemeršić, predstojnica Odjela za virologiju Hrvatskog veterinarskog instituta.

Od pojave afričke svinjske kuge do danas, u Hrvatskoj je usmrćeno više od 17.000 svinja na poljoprivrednim gospodarstvima koja su u zoni ograničenja. Marija Vučković, ministrica poljoprivrede rekla je da Vlada realizira jedan po jedan zaključak koji se odnosi na ublažavanje ekonomskih i soci...