Progress 07/15/05 to 07/14/08
Outputs
This grant has funded the acquisition of over 400 annotated images that have been added to an accessible website supported by Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB) and Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH) for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases (http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/DiseaseInfo/animaldiseaseindex.htm). Images are linked to 103 disease fact sheets (total fact sheets = 156). All website materials are downloadable and available at no charge for educational purposes, and the website receives over 25,000 hits per month. The original collaborators have provided resources to expand contacts for obtaining images, and all images are credited and approved for use, and the project is ongoing. PRODUCTS: The soon to be over 400 images on the website are used in The Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA) Internet course which is used by 26 of the 28 U.S. colleges of veterinary medicine,and the course is dissiminated via the Veterinary Information Network (VIN)for veterinarians and veterinary students. In addition, although not funded by a grant, but illustrating the use of the available images, Iowa State University published an updated reference book to supplement this course. Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals,3rd Edition 2006, contains 261 annotated images from the website for 36 diseases. The 4th edition is under revision at the moment and will contain many additional factsheets and related images and be for the U.S. and Canada. USDA APHIS has provided funds for the distribution of a copy of the textbook, Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals, to every graduating veterinary student since 2006. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency also ordered 500 copies of the textbook for distribution to Canadian senior veterinary students. OUTCOMES: The project has resulted in accessible images on the CFSPH website that are used throughout the world for education and presentations by animal health professionals. The EEDA Book is under revision for the U.S. and Canada. 23,000 books have been disseminated to date (September 2009). The EEDA course has been taught to veterinary students, veterinarians, and animal health workers. Comments about the addition of the images to the EEDA web-based course, textbook and the CFSPH website from colleagues in other colleges of veterinary medicine, human medicine and federal agencies have been extremely positive. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: Presentations have occurred at numerous international, national, and state meetings. A few of these meetings include: Western Poultry Disease, AAVMC/CDC, Avian Influenza OIE, AVMA, AAAP, AAVLD/USAHA, ACVP. A list is available on request by the Co-PIs and collaborators. The increased communication and availability of resources between agencies has been an outstanding product of this project. FUTURE INITIATIVES: Image acquisition is ongoing and it is anticipated that most factsheets will have macroscopic images soon where applicable. So far, funding has been sustained to maintain the website via book sales and additional grants. It is vital to continue to have the support of USDA and other agencies to maintain this project. We are thankful for all the support and collaboration. Goal: gather more educational resources to disseminate.
Impacts
The project provides educational awareness and knowledge of Foreign, Exotic, and Emerging Diseases to ensure the biosecurity of the U.S, food supply and awareness of zoonotic diseases in a high quality, accessible website and publications. The materials are accessible to university, government, and state agencies that provide information to animal health educators and workers. A significant benefit has been increased communication among human and animal health sectors via the project.
Publications
- Andreasen CB, Sorden SD. Images of Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals,Section 3. In: Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals. AR Spickler and JA Roth, eds., 3rd edition, IICAB/OIE, Iowa State University, 2006, pp. 246-289. 4th edition under revision for publication in 2010.
- Andreasen CB. A Pathology Image Database for Zoonotic and Emerging Diseases. Iowa Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference, University of Iowa, College of Public Health.December 2007.
- Andreasen CB, Sorden SD. Color Images for Zoonotic Diseases of Companion Animals,Chapter 5. In: Handbook for Zoonotic Diseases of Companion Animals. G Dvorak, AR Spickler and JA Roth, eds., 1st edition, CFSPH, Iowa State University, 2008, pp. 267-282. (not funded by this grant but partial dual use for zoonotic diseases)
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Progress 07/15/06 to 07/14/07
Outputs
The USDA CSREES Higher Education Challenge Grant has funded the acquisition of over 350 annotated images that have been added to an accessible website supported by Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB) and Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH) for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases (http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/DiseaseInfo/factsheets.htm). These images are linked to 70 disease fact sheets and the total fact sheets currently number over 120. All website materials are downloadable and available at no charge for educational purposes and the website receives over 25,000 hits per month. The original collaborators, including the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) and the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC), have provided resources to expand contacts for obtaining images, and all images are credited and approved for use. The acquisition, annotation, and linking of images is ongoing and after recent collections, soon
all fact sheets will have relevant linked images.
PRODUCTS: The images on the website are used in The Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA) Internet course which is used by 23 of the 28 U.S. colleges of veterinary medicine in 2006 an 2007. The third edition of the text, Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals, published in 2006, contains 261 annotated images from the website for 36 important diseases which has greatly enhanced the book; this was recently updated and again is being reprinted. Also, a book on Zoonotic Diseases of Animals has been developed with a similar format and funding is being sort for publication.
OUTCOMES: The project has resulted in images for a course and book Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA)for veterinary students and veterinarians. The book has been supplied to graduating veterinary students in the U.S. and Canada by additional governmental funding. The website is used by key individuals in animal health education nationally and internationally. Numerous requests are received from around the world for the images and permissions are obtained from us.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: Presentations about the digital image database have occurred at numerous international, national, and state meetings during 2007 including the meetings of the Western Poultry Disease Conference In Reno, NV; AAVMC/American Schools of Public Health at CDC, Atlanta; Avian Influenza meeting in Verona, Italy; AVMA meeting of the Aquatic Veterinarians in Schuamburg, Illinois, to name a few, as well as presentations by collaborators. A list of presentations is available on request.
FUTURE INITIATIVES: Image acquistion is ongoing with the annotation of 75 additional images. It is anticipated that the project will be completed by the termination date and all fact sheets with relevant gross images will be linked to those images. The development of fact sheets and image acquisition will be continued beyond the years of this grant. The key to the future of the project will be maintenance funding for the website.
Impacts
This project provides increased educational awareness and knowledge of Foreign (Exotic) Animal and Emerging Diseases to ensure the biosecurity of the U.S. livestock food supply and human health via the use of high quality, accessible digital images in teaching and the development of an accessible image database. This educational product benefits veterinary students, and is accessible to the USDA, universities, and other state and governmental agencies that train veterinary students, DVMs, diagnosticians, DVM pathologists, and related professionals in FAD diagnostics.
Publications
- C. B. Andreasen, J. A. Roth, D. L. Suarez, D. A. Senne. Training resources for prevention and intervention strategies during Avian Influenza Outbreaks. Proceedings 56th Annual Western Poultry Disease Conference, Las Vegas, March 2007. p.57.
- Andreasen C, Sorden S, Roth J, Blanchard T, Metwally S, McKenna T. A Pathology Image Data Base for Zoonotic and Emerging Animal Diseases. AAVMC/ASPH Joint Symposium - Partnerships for Preparedness: Future Directions for Schools of Public Health and Colleges of Veterinary Medicine. Atlanta, GA. April 2007. Concurrent sessions, p. 5.
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Progress 07/15/05 to 07/14/06
Outputs
This grant has funded the acquisition of over 280 annotated images that have been added to an accessible website supported by Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB) and Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH) for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases (http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/DiseaseInfo/ ). Images are linked to 62 disease fact sheets (total fact sheets = 118). All website materials are downloadable and available at no charge for educational purposes, and the website receives approximately 20,000 hits per month. The original collaborators, including the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) and the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC), have provided resources to expand contacts for obtaining images, and all images are credited and approved for use. The acquisition, annotation, and linking of images is ongoing. Presentations about the digital image database have occurred at numerous international, national, and state
meetings including the annual meetings of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (2005) and the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (2006), to increase awareness of this resource. The images on the website are used in The Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA) Internet course which is used by 24 of the 28 U.S. colleges of veterinary medicine in 2006, and the course is dissiminated via the Veterinary Information Network (VIN)for veterinarians and veterinary students. In addition, although not funded by a grant, but illustrating the use of the available images, Iowa State University published an updated reference book to supplement this course. Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals,3rd Edition 2006, contains 261 annotated images from the website for 36 diseases. The addition of images to the course is being assessed by questions added to the student and instructor evaluation forms developed by our collaborator in educational assessment and
outcomes. We also track hits for each image on the website. The USDA APHIS provided funds for the distribution of a copy of the textbook, Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals, 3rd Edition, to every graduating veterinary student in the class of 2006. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency also ordered 500 copies of the textbook for distribution to Canadian senior students. By December 2006, 10,600 copies of the EEDA textbook will have been distributed containing images derived from this digital images project. For 2007, APHIS has agreed to continue to support the grants program for U.S. colleges of veterinary medicine, to update additional components of the course, and to distribute EEDA textbooks both to graduating seniors in the class of 2007 and to students taking the EEDA course. Comments about the addition of the images to the EEDA web-based course, textbook and the CFSPH website from colleagues in other colleges of veterinary medicine, human medicine and federal agencies have
been extremely positive.
PRODUCTS: Acquisition of over 280 annotated images have been added to an accessible website supported by Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB) and Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH) for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases (http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/DiseaseInfo/ ). These images are linked to 62 disease fact sheets and the total fact sheets currently number 118. All website materials are downloadable and available at no charge for educational purposes and the website receives approximately 20,000 hits per month. The images on the website are used in The Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA) Internet course which is used by 24 of the 28 U.S. colleges of veterinary medicine in 2006. In addition, although not funded by a grant, but illustrating the use of the available images, Iowa State University published an updated reference book to supplement this course. The third edition of the text, Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals,
published in 2006, contains 261 annotated images from the website for 36 important diseases which has greatly enhanced the book.
OUTCOMES: The image database can be accessed through the website www.cfsph.iastate.edu using any Internet browser and does not require additional software plugins or downloads; includes photographs of clinical signs and lesions; provides an efficient way for updating disease information and adding new disease fact sheets and photographs; gives users the ability to search for relevant fact sheets by disease name, by the species affected, or by clinical signs; allows for thorough keyword searches of all fact sheets; gives users the ability to view photographs of clinical signs/lesions linked to the fact sheet and phrases with which they are associated; and allows for keyword searches of photo descriptions. To date, extensive surveys, evaluations, and analysis have been done for the EEDA course at each institution where it has been offered. The addition of images to the course is being assessed by questions added to the student and instructor evaluation forms developed by our
collaborator in educational assessment and outcomes. We also track hits for each image on the website.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: Over 280 annotated images have been added to an accessible website supported by Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB) and Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH) for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases (http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/DiseaseInfo/ ). These images are linked to 62 disease fact sheets and the total fact sheets currently number 118. We also track hits for each image on the website. Although not funded by this grant, images from the project have been used for the third edition of the text, Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals, published in 2006, which contains 261 annotated images from the website for 36 important diseases which has greatly enhanced the book. By December 2006, 10,600 copies of the EEDA textbook will have been distributed containing images derived from this digital images project. The USDA APHIS provided funds for the distribution of a copy of the textbook, Emerging and Exotic Diseases of
Animals, 3rd Edition, to every graduating veterinary student in the class of 2006. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency also ordered 500 copies of the textbook for distribution to Canadian senior students. For 2007, APHIS has agreed to continue to support the grants program for U.S. colleges of veterinary medicine, to update additional components of the course, and to distribute EEDA textbooks both to graduating seniors in the class of 2007 and to students taking the EEDA course. Also, presentations about the digital image database have occurred at numerous international, national, and state meetings including the annual meetings of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (2005) and the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (2006), to increase awareness of this resource. A list of presentations is available on request. This educational product will primarily benefit veterinary students, but also will be accessible to the USDA, universities, AFIP, and
other state and governmental agencies to train veterinary students, DVMs, diagnosticians, DVM pathologists, and related professionals in FAD diagnostics.
FUTURE INITIATIVES: The acquisition, annotation, and linking of images is ongoing. Currently, the collaboration at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology has expanded to obtain images from the human medical section for zoonotic diseases of importance to agriculture and veterinary medicine. The completion of as many images as possible is the goal.
Impacts
The project will assist in ensuring the biosecurity of the U.S. livestock food supply and human health via the use of high quality, accessible digital images in teaching and the development of an accessible image database. Over 280 annotated images that have been added to an accessible website supported by Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB) and Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH) for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases (http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/DiseaseInfo/) and images are linked to 62 disease fact sheets. Also, the incorporation of foreign animal and emerging animal disease images into an existing web-based course, Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA) has occurred with assessment of learning objectives for FAD awareness and lesion recognition. The website contains links for awareness of meetings and seminars related to FADs. We have created an accessible database of Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) images for
distance education technologies, such as web-based, web-cam, and computer interactive courses and available for incorporation into other image databases. Additional beneficiaries include the PIADC FAD course, by supplementing the course with an image enhanced web-based FAD course. This educational product will primarily benefit veterinary students, but also will be accessible to the USDA, universities, AFIP, and other state and governmental agencies to train veterinary students, DVMs, diagnosticians, DVM pathologists, and related professionals in FAD diagnostics.
Publications
- Andreasen C, Sorden S, Roth J, Blanchard T, Metwally S, McKenna T. A digital image base to enhance foreign animal disease education. Proceedings of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians 48th Annual Conference. Hershey, PA., 2005, p. 110.
- Andreasen C, Sorden S, Roth J, Blanchard T, Metwally S, McKenna T. A pathology image data base for foreign, emerging and zoonotic animal diseases. Vet Pathol 43:828, 2006
- In addition, although not funded by a grant, but illustrating the use of the available images, Iowa State University published an updated reference book to supplement this course. The third edition of the text, Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals, published in 2006, contains 261 annotated images from the website for 36 important diseases which has greatly enhanced the book. diseases which has greatly enhanced the book.
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