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• Livestock

• Unique facilities at the national level by their size and diversity

Three Emerg'in facilities have rooms adapted to terrestrial animals of all sizes, from small rodents to large animals (cow, pony) for BSL2 and BSL3 containment levels. All major livestock species are concerned (poultry, ruminants, pork, rabbit, duck etc.), but we comply to demand of our partners by adapting our facilities with their needs.

• Adaptable rooms and equipment associated with long-term expertise on livestock

We can consider any type of projects to better understand the impact of animal and zoonotic diseases through:

• The large size and the great diversity and adaptability of our facilities;
• Very long expertise on a wide variety of animal species and their diseases.

• Services available

• Develop new vaccines; ;
• Evaluation of alternative control methods (natural products or drugs from the pharmaceutical industry);
• Study new medical devices (sensors, biosensors) or telemetry equipment;
• Help you better understand the protective response or pathophysiology of infections and globally provide expertise in all areas of infectious disease. (in parnership with research units);
• Perform translational research with preclinical models and the possibility of performing surgery and imaging.

• Facilities

• PFIE : Infectiology of farm, model and wild animals facility
• IERP : Infectiology of fishes and rodent facility
• Experimental facility of Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort Laboratory

• Wildlife

 • A facility dedicated to understanding the role of wildlife as a reservoir of pathogens transmissible to humans or domestic animals

Two facilities are capable of carrying out experiments on wildlife: Atton facility entirely dedicated to wildlife and the PFIE facility that can also host experimentation with some of these animals

Atton experimental facility consists of an area of 206 m² in aviaries, 285 m² of livestock buildings and 88 m² in BSL3 containment. This facility allow breeding and experimentation on wild canines (foxes, raccoon dogs), mustelids (badgers, ferrets ...), procyonids of less than 30 kg (raccoons ...) and wild rodents. These facilities include BSL2 and BSL3 surgery rooms linked to BSL2 and BSL3 laboratories. These facilities are associated with wildlife capture expertise that will either be released immediately or held in experimental rooms. This expertise includes, in addition to the capture, the ability to perform various sampling and the administrative management of the complex regulatory documents that constitute the animal experimentation on the captive or not captive wildlife.

PFIE facility can adapt about 10% of its surface in BSL2 rooms (60 m²) and 30% of its surface in BSL3 rooms (100 m²) for experiments on wildlife (wild boars, badgers etc).

• Rooms and equipment adaptable and associated with a wildlife expertise

We can consider many projects to better understand the role of wildlife as a reservoir of pathogens through:

• multipurpose rooms that can support a variety of species;
• strong expertise on certain animal species;
• adaptability

• Services available

• Development of molecular tools for the diagnosis of transmitted pathogens;
• Development of serology tools to evaluate the immune cells responses; 
• Study of species in the field;
• Competence in vaccine development and analysis of their effectiveness;
• Host / pathogens interactions;
• Pathophysiology of the infection.

• Facilities

• LRFSN : Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife facility
• PFIE : Infectiology of farm, model and wild animals facility

• Rodents

Rodents are housed in three facilities (PFIE, IERP, LRFSN). Health status are regularly controlled and are free of specific pathogenic organisms (SPF).

• Dedicated rooms and equipments

• Room for rodent experiments with ventilated racks in 3 facilities (PFIE, IERP, LRFSN), 76m² in BSL2 and 260m² in BSL3;
• Rooms for inoculations and sampling.

• Services available

• Production/hosting of animals with specific health and genetic status;
• Possibility to working with germ free animals in partnership with the ANAXEM facility;
• Implementation of experimental protocols in all areas of infectious diseases.

• Facilities

• PFIE : Infectiology of farm, model and wild animals facility
• IERP : Infectiology of fishes and rodent facility
• LRFSN : Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife facility