A5027776112- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Viral Infections and Immunology Research
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Helminth infection and control
- Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Veterinary Medicine and Surgery
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2017-2025
Madrid Health Service
2019-2024
Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos
2011-2021
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2012-2015
University of Castilla-La Mancha
2015
Regional Government of Castile-La Mancha
2015
Controlling infectious diseases at the wildlife/livestock interface is often difficult because ecological processes driving transmission between wildlife reservoirs and sympatric livestock populations are poorly understood. Thus, assessing how animals use their environment this affects interspecific interactions an important factor in determining local risk for disease maintenance. We used data from concurrently monitored GPS-collared domestic cattle wild boar (Sus scrofa) to assess...
Tuberculosis (TB), a chronic disease caused by infection with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, is endemic in wild boar (Sus scrofa) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) south-central Spain. Understanding temporal dynamics of this requires long time series data collection over large areas. The aim paper was to identify determinants TB prevalence severity both species Ciudad Real province, Spain, from 2000 2012. Study variables included management, population dynamics, range geographical...
The members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) cause (TB). Infection is transmitted within and between livestock wildlife populations, thus hampering TB control. Indirect transmission might be facilitated if MTC bacteria persist in environment long enough to represent a risk exposure different species sharing same habitat. We have, for first time, addressed relationship environmental persistence use water resources two endemic areas southern Spain with objective identifying...
African swine fever (ASF), the most significant threat to pig industry worldwide, has spread more than 55 countries on three continents, and it affects 77% of world population. In European Union, wild boar (Sus scrofa) is severely affected host. The main reasons for unprecedented constant ASF in Europe are trade activities, continuous movement infected-wild populations among regions lack vaccine prevent infection. this study, we demonstrate that oral immunization with a non-hemadsorbing,...
Complex ecological and epidemiological systems require multidisciplinary innovative research. Low cost unmanned aircraft (UAS) can provide information on the spatial pattern of hosts' distribution abundance, which is crucial as regards modelling determinants disease transmission persistence a fine scale. In this context we have studied epidemiology tuberculosis (TB) in ungulate community Doñana National Park (South-western Spain) by species host (red deer, fallow deer cattle) abundance at...
Livestock diseases such as bovine tuberculosis can have considerable negative effects on human health and economic activity. Wildlife reservoirs often hinder disease eradication in sympatric livestock populations. Therefore, quantifying interactions between wildlife is an important aspect of understanding persistence. This study was conducted extensive cattle farm southwest Spain, where cattle, domestic pigs, wild boar red deer are considered to be part a host community. We tested the...
African swine fever (ASF) is currently the major concern of global industry, as a consequence which reconsideration containment and prevention measures taken to date urgently required. A great interest in developing an effective safe vaccine against ASF virus (ASFV) infection has, therefore, recently appeared. The objective present study test inactivated ASFV preparation under vaccination strategy that has not previously been tested order improve its protective effect. following have...
Fences are one of the most widespread manmade features in nature, constituting an artificial limitation to movement wildlife. To date, their effects on wildlife behavior have been understudied but this knowledge is required design effective management procedures. Using 21 GPS-monitored wild boar, we evaluated permeability different types fences and described temporal patterns spatial hotspots for crossing events. A fence's was inferred by success, i.e., number times that animals crossed a...
Capture, handling and chemical restraint are basic techniques often needed for research or management purposes. The aim of this study was testing a combination tiletamine-zolazepam (TZ) (3 mg/kg) medetomidine (M) (0.05 on Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa). A total 77 free-ranging were captured by means portable cages corral traps then anaesthetized with intramuscular darts using blowpipe. individual response to immobilization characterized anaesthetic, clinical, serum biochemical variables....
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is spreading throughout Eurasia and there no vaccine nor treatment available, so the control based on implementation of strict sanitary measures. These measures include depopulation infected in-contact animals export restrictions, which can lead to important economic losses, making currently (ASF) greatest threat global industry. ASF has been endemic island Sardinia since 1978, longest persistence anywhere in Eurasia. In Sardinia, eradication programs have...
: African swine fever (ASF) is a viral disease of domestic and wild suids for which there currently no vaccine or treatment available. The recent spread ASF virus (ASFV) through Europe Asia causing enormous economic animal losses. Unfortunately, the measures taken so far are insufficient an effective against ASFV needs to be urgently developed. We hypothesized that immunization with cocktail thirty-five rationally selected antigens would improve protective efficacy subunit prototypes given...
We investigated adult Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) survival and death in 2 tuberculosis-endemic populations with different harvest pressure Spain. Overall, tuberculosis accounted for 30% of total deaths. Increased protected areas has direct implications management control.
The correct management of diseases that are transmitted between wildlife and livestock requires a reliable estimate the pathogen transmission rate. calculation this parameter is challenge for epidemiologists, since can occur through multiple pathways. social network analysis widely used tool in epidemiology due to its capacity identify individuals communities with relevant roles transmission. In present work, we studied dynamic interactions complex epidemiological scenario using information...
Animal tuberculosis (TB) is endemic in wild boar (Sus scrofa), red deer (Cervus elaphus), fallow (Dama dama) and cattle south central Spain. In order to clarify the processes that operate medium long-term, we studied TB at wildlife-livestock interface Doñana National Park for 14 years (2006-2018) relation host density, stochastic factors (rainfall) environmental features (e.g., aggregation points such as waterholes). Wild showed highest prevalence of (76.7%), followed by (42.5%), (14.4%)...
Background/Objectives: African Swine Fever (ASF) is one of the most significant infectious diseases affecting both domestic pig and wild boar populations, leading to substantial economic biosanitary consequences. In Europe, disease management relies on stringent biosecurity measures surveillance through diagnosis, highlighting urgent need for an effective safe vaccine ASF control. this context, VACDIVA project has generated several promising candidates, including those with EP153R gene...
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic infectious disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium bovis. Although eradication priority for the European authorities, bTB remains active or even increasing in many countries, causing significant economic losses. The integral consideration of epidemiological factors crucial to more cost-effectively allocate control measures. aim this study was identify nature and extent association between TB distribution list potential risk regarding cattle, wild...
Abstract The knowledge about the spatial ecology and distribution of organisms is important for both basic applied science. Biologging one most popular methods obtaining information animals, but requires capturing animals often limited by costs data retrieval. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have proven their efficacy wildlife surveillance habitat monitoring, potential contribution to prediction animal patterns abundance has not been thoroughly evaluated. In this study, we assess usefulness...
Controlling infections shared by wildlife and livestock requires the understanding quantification of interspecific interactions between species involved. This is particularly important in extensive multi-host systems, which controlled domestic animals interact with uncontrolled, abundant expanding wild species, such as ungulates. We have, therefore, quantified boar (Sus scrofa) free-ranging cattle Mediterranean Spain, along their spatio-temporal variability. GPS-GSM-collars were used to...
Abstract Day range ( DR ), the distance travelled by an individual during day, is important metric in movement ecology that recently gained interest its relevance for estimating population density through random encounter model REM ). Traditionally, has been estimated using GPS technology and considering raw straight‐line distances between consecutive locations, which underestimation of true path distance. In this work, we tested accuracy a new approach based on camera‐trap data estimation...