graduate at Medicina Veterinária from Universidade Estadual de Londrina (1982), master's at Veterinary Medicine from Universidade de São Paulo (1989) and PhD at Veterinary Medicine from Universidade de São Paulo (1996). Post doctor in infection and immunity at the Gulbenkian Sciences Institute, Portugal, and post doctor in viral immunology at Pasteur Institute , Paris- France, mainly on rabies. Has experience in Veterinary Medicine, focusing on Infectious Illnesses of Animals, acting on the following subjects: Rabies, brucellosis, infectious diseases, pathogenesis, diagnosis and epidemiology.Coordinator of internacional project with France and Canada. Member of The Rabies in the Americas International Committee (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Bovine brucellosis is among the zoonoses that have the most sanitary measures for its worldwide control, being therefore originated in 2001, the National Program for the Control and Eradication of Brucellosis and Animal Tuberculosis (PNCEBT), which institutes norms in order to avoid the effects of the bovine disease in Brazilian national territory, referring to socio-economic and public h…
Outbreaks of Vaccinia virus (VACV) affecting cattle and humans have been reported in Brazil in the last 15 years, but the origin of outbreaks remains unknown. Although VACV DNA have been already detected in mice (Mus musculus), opossums (Didelphis albiventris) and dogs during VACV zoonotic outbreaks, no transmission to cattle or humans from any of these were reported during Brazilian outb…
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Since interactions between humans and animals occur in different environments and at different ways, One Health comprises an integrated view of human, animal and environmental health and, therefore, the knowledge of the situation of vulnerable populations is fundamental to implement measures of public health. Thus, actions will be carried out in indigenous villages belonging to the base p…
In late December 2019, the rise in cases of an atypical pneumonia of unknown origin began in the city of Wuhan, China. Within a short time, it had already been ascertained that the etiological agent causing this unusual cases was a new coronavirus. This new virus is related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and is designated as SARS-CoV-2, and is responsible for being the main …
Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever, a zoonotic disease with a worldwide distribution that, due to the characteristics of the bacterium, can cause long-term epidemic outbreaks with large numbers of infected individuals. The epidemiological situation of Q fever is unknown in Brazil, however, human cases of the disease have been described in the States of Bahia, Minas Gerais…
Although rabies is considered a very old disease reported throughout the mankind history, little is understood about the immunopathogenicity of different viral strains. Animals studies have demonstrated that viral neuroinvasiveness is inversely correlated with the inflammation level in the Central Nervous System, which is accompanied by neuronal degeneration and apoptosis. Advances in mol…
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Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever, a zoonotic disease with a worldwide distribution that, due to the characteristics of the bacterium, can cause long-term epidemic outbreaks with large numbers of infected individuals. The epidemiological situation of Q fever is unknown in Brazil, however, human cases of the disease have been described in the states of Bahia, Minas Gerais…
Brucellosis is a zoonosis which has a great impact on the public health and economic worldwide. Canine brucelose, often diagnosed in Brazil, has its importance in the public health given the relation animal/human. From the economic point of view causes losses in kennels due to reproductive losses and difficulty or impossibility of therapeutic. Genotyping of pathogens is essencial for moni…
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