• Epidemiological survey and risk factors associated with hepatitis E virus in small ruminants in southern Spain 

      Caballero-Gómez, Javier; García-Bocanegra, Ignacio; Jiménez-Martín, Débora; Cano Terriza, David; Risalde, M.A.; López-López, Pedro; Jiménez-Ruiz, Saúl; Rivero, Antonio; Rivero-Juárez, Antonio (Wiley, 2022)
      Autochthonous cases of hepatitis E (HE) associated with zoonotic genotypes HEV-3 and HEV-4 have significantly increased in industrialized countries over the last decade. Suidae are generally recognized as the main reservoirs ...
    • Exposure to Coxiella burnetii in wild lagomorphs in Spanish Mediterranean ecosystems 

      Castro-Scholten, Sabrina; Caballero-Gómez, Javier; Cano Terriza, David; Jiménez-Martín, Débora; Rouco Zufiaurre, Carlos; Beato-Benítez, Adrián; Camacho Sillero, Leonor Natividad; García-Bocanegra, Ignacio (MDPI, 2024)
      Coxiella burnetii is an important zoonotic pathogen of worldwide distribution that can infect a wide range of wild and domestic species. The European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) can play a role as a reservoir for ...
    • Global molecular diversity of Hepatitis E virus in wild boar and domestic pig 

      Casares-Jiménez, María; López-López, Pedro; Caballero-Gómez, Javier; Frías Casas, Mario; Pérez-Hernando, Belén; Oluremi, Adeolu Sunday; Risalde, M.A.; Ruiz-Cáceres, Inmaculada; Opaleye, Oluyinka Oladele; García-Bocanegra, Ignacio; Rivero Juárez, Antonio; Rivero Román, Antonio (Elsevier, 2021)
      Our study aim was to describe and characterize the global Hepatitis E virus (HEV) molecular and genotype geographical distribution in domestic pig and wild boar, which could facilitate the traceability of human cases. We ...
    • Monitoring of hepatitis E virus in zoo animals from Spain, 2007–2021 

      Caballero-Gómez, Javier; García-Bocanegra, Ignacio; Cano Terriza, David; Beato-Benítez, Adrián; Ulrich, Rainer G.; Martínez, J.; Guerra, R.; Martínez-Valverde, Rosa; Martínez-Nevado, Eva; Quevedo-Muñoz, Miguel Ángel; Sierra-Arqueros, Cecilia; Planas, Javier; Castro-García, Noelia de; Rivero, Antonio; Rivero Juárez, Antonio (Wiley, 2022)
      Hepatitis E virus (HEV, family Hepeviridae) is an important emerging and zoonotic pathogen. In recent decades, the number of human cases of zoonotic hepatitis E has increased considerably in industrialized countries and ...
    • Serological and molecular survey of hepatitis E virus in cats and dogs in Spain 

      Caballero-Gómez, Javier; Rivero-Juárez, Antonio; Jurado-Tarifa, Estefanía; Jiménez-Martín, Débora; Jiménez-Ruiz, Elena; Castro-Scholten, Sabrina; Ulrich, Rainer G. (Wiley, 2021)
      Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging zoonotic pathogen that is currently recognized as one of themajor causes of acute human hepatitis worldwide. In Europe, the increasing number of hepatitis E cases is mainly associated ...
    • Seroreversion of IgG anti-HEV in HIV cirrhotic patients: A long-term multi-sampling longitudinal study 

      López-López, Pedro; Frias, Mario; Camacho, Ángela; Machuca Sánchez, Isabel; Caballero-Gómez, Javier; Risalde, M.A.; García-Bocanegra, Ignacio; Pérez-Valero, Ignacio; Gómez, J.C.; Rivero-Juárez, Antonio; Rivero, Antonio (Wiley, 2022)
      The aim of our study was to evaluate HEV antibody kinetics in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with cirrhosis. A longitudinal retrospective study was designed. Patients were followed up every 6 months; anti-HEV IgG and IgM ...