South Africa
Farm
220
Hectares (+/- 544 Acres)
Facilities
51
Buildings (26,500 sqm/285,000 sqft)
Staff
110
Team members
Regulatory Standards
SANS10386, European Directive 2010/63/EU. Clinvet South Africa is an approved GLP and vGCP facility
Capabilities
The facilities include canine and feline breeding and rearing units, communal housing facilities for ruminants and equines, and individual stanchions for cattle. Open, semi-open, arthropod-proof, insect-proof, climate-controlled and ABSL2+ research units, veterinary care facilities, including clinics and a fully equipped surgical theatre, allow for a vast diversity of projects.
Our large arthropod and helminth breeding unit holds a comprehensive parasite bank with strains from around the world and supplies most of our parasites, helminths and insects we use.
Our clinical pathology laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments and can support most of our work.
Capacity
Our South African site comprises 51 buildings. The nine facilities dedicated to breeding have a maximum capacity of 605 juvenile canines and felines. Seventeen colony housing facilities accommodate up to 1,000 individuals in enriched communal environments. Our eleven research-only units house up to 450 companion animals, and ten of these buildings are equipped with aided ventilation, heating and cooling systems.
The eight production animal units total a maximum capacity of 400 animals, depending on size and species.
Our units have dedicated wet and dry laboratory areas to manipulate animals, insects and parasites and allow for clinical study procedures.
Primary Focus
We design and perform safety, efficacy, and metabolism studies on ectoparasiticides, endoparasiticides, and veterinary medicines for candidate screening and product registration or label extension. Our studies are typically submitted to EMA, EPA, VMD, FDA, USDA, ANSES, AEMPS, MAFF, VDD, MAPA, APVMA, DALRRD, SAHPRA, and other regulatory authorities.
We also propose field and laboratory pesticide efficacy testing services to the chemical, public health and aerosol industries.
Morocco
Farm
22
Hectares (+/- 54 Acres)
Facilities
22
Buildings (13,700 sqm/150,000 sqft)
Staff
60
Team members
Regulatory Standards
European Directive 2010/63/EU, (VICH) GCPs
Capabilities
The facilities include an arthropod and insect (sandflies) breeding unit, canine breeding and rearing facilities, and outdoor and indoor large & companion animal accommodation.
The canine research facilities consist of insect and arthropod-proof research facilities and open and semi-open communal facilities. Ruminants, equines and poultry can be housed, as applicable, in holding and sorting pens, isolation corrals, insect-proof, and two large research facilities up to ABSL2 and 2+.
We also have veterinary care facilities with a fully-equipped clinic and surgical theatre.
Capacity
Our Moroccan site has 22 buildings. Among these are laboratories for maintaining and manipulating parasites, bacteria, and viruses, clinical pathology diagnostics and molecular biology sample preparation, and dedicated space for housing various host species. Our vector-protected study units comprise two canine buildings with communal animal areas and a maximum capacity of about 300 animals.
The production animal barrier units fulfil the requirements for ABSL2 and ABSL2+ and have a maximum capacity of 200 bovines or 500 ovine/caprine. We also have 36 stanchions for tick studies on production animals.
Purpose-built group housing animal resting and washout units accommodate up to 500 canines and 422 bovines or 702 ovine/caprines and facilitate socialization and enrichment.
Primary Focus
The Moroccan site opened in 2015 to expand Clinvet’s footprint in Africa and support research on infectious diseases affecting companion animals in the Mediterranean basin – including heartworm, leishmaniosis and associated vectors.
The ABSL2+ production animal facility and the library of recent African ectoparasite isolates provide the possibility to perform clinical trials on the major ticks and tick-borne diseases affecting farmers on the African continent and further afield.
Clinvet USA (NY)
Farm
56
Hectares (138 Acres)
Facilities
7
Buildings (7,700 sqm/82,600 sqft)
Staff
50
Team members
Regulatory Standards
AAALAC Accredited, USDA Licensed, Operate according to FDA, EPA and OECD GLPs as well as (VICH) GCPs.
Capabilities
The site consists of 26 buildings located in two locations. Animal housing spaces include conventional ABSL2 and ABSL2+ barrier facilities for cats and dogs. Our modular and flexible housing system allows various configurations in different rooms and buildings, and support areas include various laboratory spaces, procedure rooms and a surgery and recovery area.
Capacity
The site can accommodate large numbers of cats and dogs in its 66 animal rooms housed individually or within groups. Total animal holding space is 2,900 sqm/31,300 sqft.
Primary Focus
Clinvet USA (NY) conducts efficacy, safety, metabolism and immunogenicity studies in conventional and APD canines and felines. The site has experienced researchers and a wide variety of animal housing spaces, including barrier facilities suitable for infectious disease challenge trials. Our parasitology-experienced team and access to companion animal ecto and endo parasite strains allow us to support parasitology efficacy studies.
Clinvet South Dakota (USA)
Farm
22
Hectares (56 Acres)
Facilities
5
Buildings (3,400 sqm/36,700 sqft)
Staff
20
Team members
Regulatory Standards
USDA 9CFR, AVMA, (VICH) GCPs
Capabilities
Clinvet South Dakota (CVSD) performs bovine, swine, and avian clinical studies, including but not limited to: reversion to virulence, tissue tropism, duration of immunity, fetal protection, lack of interference, viral and bacterial challenge studies, parasitology natural challenge studies, growth and feed performance, and more.
Capacity
The site comprises the Clinical Research Building, a 1,600 sqm/17,100 sqft ABSL2 facility with multi-species, configurable rooms, a satellite prep laboratory, and a complete necropsy suite. This building houses cattle, pigs, and poultry. The conventional, sheltered individual or group housing facility accommodates cattle and pigs.
The site also has access to commercial farms and other research organizations’ facilities.
Primary Focus
Clinvet South Dakota (CVSD) focuses on food-producing species, notably bovine, swine, and avian. The scientific team has over 20 years of experience designing and conducting safety and efficacy studies to support novel biological products’ R&D and existing products’ post-license maintenance. Its scientific expertise and microbiology laboratory enable the site to develop, validate, and execute viral and bacterial disease challenge models.
CVSD studies support product registrations with USDA, EMA and other local authorities.
