The Regional Center for Monitoring Parasitic Infections of livestock (Centro Regionale per il Monitoraggio delle Parassitosi - CReMoPAR) was born 15 years ago through an agreement between the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions (University of Napoli Federico II) and the Agricoltural Department of the Campania Region, southern Italy. Diagnostic on livestock are daily ongoing at
CReMoPAR concerning different aspects of helminthology, protozoology and entomology. FLOTAC, Mini-FLOTAC, Fill-FLOTAC, molecular tools) and field trials are conducted to study the strategic and economic efficacy of different control strategies of parasites in sheep, goats, cattle and buffaloes. Furthermore, spatial epidemiology is used to map and model the distribution of parasites in livestock through the use of modern and powerful resources provided by geographical information systems and other geospatial tools. CReMoPAR is an example of service for livestock that allows academics, veterinarians, and field researchers, to “touch” the real problems of the farmers, detecting new areas of applied research and in turn to increase the farmer’s awareness on the importance of diagnosis and control of parasites in livestock. CReMoPAR is useful for the development of knowledge in the fields of parasitology, animal production and veterinary public health.
