title: RESAMA: A Network for Monitoring Health and Husbandry Practices in Aquatic Research Facilities.
abstract: Health monitoring is a crucial aspect of the management of any research animal house. RESAMA is a network strong of 60 academic and private partners acting in France since the end of 2012. The network aims to increase awareness of animal caretakers and researchers on health management issues in facilities holding aquatic model species (zebrafish, Xenopus, medaka, Mexican tetra). To do so, each partner research facility will be visited at least once. The visiting team is composed at least of one veterinarian and one zootechnician specialized in aquatic species. The visit results in a health-monitoring assessment of the facility, which includes a sampling for histo-pathological, bacteriological, and molecular pathogen detection. During the visit, rearing practices are also reviewed through an interview of animal caretakers. However, the present report essentially focuses on the health-monitoring aspect. The ultimate goal of the project is to provide a network-wide picture of health issues in aquatic facilities. Performed in parallel, the rearing practice assessment will ultimately help to establish rational relationship between handling practices and animal health in aquatic facilities. The study is still in progress. Here, we describe the results to be drawn from an analysis of the 23 facilities that had been visited so far. We sampled 720 fish and 127 amphibians and performed a little less than 1400 individual tests.
authors.affiliation: 1 UMS AMAGEN, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay , Gif sur Yvette, France .
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Legendre
authors.affiliation: 2 CRB Xénope, UMS 3387 CNRS, Université de Rennes 1 , Rennes, France .
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guillet
authors.affiliation: 3 VETOFISH, Châteauneuf-les-Martigues , France .
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Leguay
authors.affiliation: 3 VETOFISH, Châteauneuf-les-Martigues , France .
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Meunier
authors.affiliation: 4 Université LUNAM , ONIRIS, Nantes, France .
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Labrut
authors.affiliation: 5 Laboratoire Départemental Vétérinaire de l'Hérault, Montpellier, France .
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Keck
authors.affiliation: 6 UMR 9197 Neuro-PSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud , Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France .
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bardotti
authors.affiliation: 7 Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire National de Référence de la Tuberculose, Unité de Zoonoses Bactériennes, Laboratoire de Santé Animale , ANSES, Maisons-Alfort, France .
authors.forename: Lorraine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Michelet
authors.affiliation: 1 UMS AMAGEN, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay , Gif sur Yvette, France .
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sohm
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000379:methods*; D000827:Animal Welfare; D000818:Animals; D017756:Aquaculture / Q000379:methods*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005602:France; D023421:Models, Animal; D015027:Zebrafish