• 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 ...
    • Monitoring of Hepatitis E Virus in Wild Lagomorphs in Spanish Mediterranean Ecosystems 

      Castro-Scholten, Sabrina; Caballero-Gómez, Javier; Rivero-Juárez, Antonio; Cano Terriza, David; Gómez-Guillamón, Félix; Jiménez-Martín, Débora; Rivero, Antonio; García-Bocanegra, Ignacio (Wiley, 2023)
      Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging zoonotic pathogen in Europe. Even though swine species are considered the main host of the zoonotic HEV-3 genotype, rabbits are recognized as the main reservoir of the divergent HEV-3ra ...
    • Occurrence of Coxiella burnetii in wild lagomorphs and their ticks in Spanish Mediterranean ecosystems 

      Castro-Scholten, Sabrina; Caballero-Gómez, Javier; Martínez, Remigio; Nadales-Martín, Borja J.; Cano Terriza, David; Jiménez-Martín, Débora; Remesar, Susana; Jiménez-Ruiz, Saúl; Gómez-Guillamón, Félix; García-Bocanegra, Ignacio (Wiley, 2024)
      Background: Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever, is a zoonotic multi-host vector-borne pathogen of major public health importance. Although the European Food Safety Authority has recently made the monitoring ...
    • 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 ...