Category: Projects

This project aims to increase our knowledge about the prevalence of Ranavirus spp. infections in amphibians in the Netherlands.

This project will involve the retrospective analysis of stored serum and tissue samples from deer previously submitted to the DWHC for post-mortem investigation, for the presence of infection with the bacterial cause of Q-fever, Coxiella burnetti.

This project will assess the health status of deer killed on the roads in Utrecht in 2010 and submitted to the DWHC for post-mortem investigation in order to shed light on a possible cause for the increase in collisions.

This project involves the set-up of a national sampling network in order to ascertain the prevalence of infection with epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus in wild deer in the Netherlands.