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Alberto Allepuz is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, with a particular concentration on subfields such as Agronomy and Crop Science, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Animal Science and Zoology.

They have contributed extensively to topics including Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology, Viral Infections and Vectors, Animal Virus Infections Studies, and Mycobacterium Research and Diagnosis.

Their recent publications cover a range of studies related to animal health, biosecurity, and infectious diseases. Notable papers include:

  • Biosecurity in pig farms: a review, 2021, Porcine Health Management
  • Introduction of a PRRSV-1 strain of increased virulence in a pig production structure in Spain: virus evolution and impact on production, 2023, Porcine Health Management
  • Description of a New Clade within Subtype 1 ofBetaarterivirus suid 1Causing Severe Outbreaks in Spain, 2022, Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Development of a quantitative risk assessment of bovine viral diarrhea virus and bovine herpesvirus-1 introduction in dairy cattle herds to improve biosecurity, 2020, Journal of Dairy Science
  • Influence on the implementation of biosecurity measures in dairy cattle farms: Communication between veterinarians and dairy farmers, 2021, Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Allepuz frequently collaborates with several co-authors. Among the most frequent are Jordi Casal, Giovanna Ciaravino, Sebastián Moya, Daniel Beltrán-Alcrudo, and Bibiana Benavides Benavides.

Their research has appeared most often in journals focused on veterinary science and animal health. The primary publication venues include:

  • Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Animals
  • Porcine Health Management

Best Publications

  • Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccination of conventional pigs prevents viremia against PCV2 isolates of different genotypes and geographic origins.

    M. Fort;M. Sibila;A. Allepuz;E. Mateu

  • Biosecurity in pig farms: a review

    Laura Valeria Alarcón;Alberto Allepuz;Enric Mateu

  • Epidemiological study of hepatitis E virus infection in European wild boars (Sus scrofa) in Spain.

    Nilsa de Deus;Bibiana Peralta;Sonia Pina;Alberto Allepuz

  • Usutu Virus Sequences in Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae), Spain

    Núria Busquets;Anna Alba;Alberto Allepuz;Carles Aranda

  • Evidence of goats acting as domestic reservoirs of bovine tuberculosis.

    S. Napp;A. Allepuz;I. Mercader;M. Nofrarías

  • Longitudinal study of hepatitis E virus infection in Spanish farrow-to-finish swine herds

    Maribel Casas;Raquel Cortés;Sonia Pina;Bibiana Peralta

  • Epidemiology of taeniosis/cysticercosis in Europe, a systematic review: Western Europe.

    Minerva Laranjo-González;Brecht Devleesschauwer;Chiara Trevisan;Alberto Allepuz

  • Bluetongue epidemiology in wild ruminants from Southern Spain

    Ignacio García;Sebastián Napp;Jordi Casal;Anselmo Perea

  • Prevalence and risk factors of Campylobacter infection in broiler flocks from southern Spain

    Alicia Torralbo;Carmen Borge;Alberto Allepuz;Ignacio García-Bocanegra

  • Epidemiology, impact and control of bovine cysticercosis in Europe: a systematic review

    Minerva Laranjo-González;Brecht Devleesschauwer;Brecht Devleesschauwer;Sarah Gabriël;Pierre Dorny

  • Economic cost of lumpy skin disease outbreaks in three Balkan countries: Albania, Bulgaria and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (2016-2017).

    Jordi Casal;Alberto Allepuz;Aleksandra Miteva;Ledi Pite

  • Dairy farmers' decision-making to implement biosecurity measures: A study of psychosocial factors.

    Sebastián Moya;Francisco Tirado;Josep Espluga;Giovanna Ciaravino

  • Pig-major acute phase protein and haptoglobin serum concentrations correlate with PCV2 viremia and the clinical course of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome.

    Llorenc Grau-Roma;Peter M. H. Heegaard;Charlotte Kristiane Hjulsager;Marina Sibila

  • Monitoring bluetongue disease (BTV-1) epidemic in southern Spain during 2007.

    A. Allepuz;I. García-Bocanegra;S. Napp;J. Casal

  • Analysis of the spatial variation of Bovine tuberculosis disease risk in Spain (2006–2009)

    A. Allepuz;J. Casal;S. Napp;M. Saez

  • Epidemiological investigation of bovine tuberculosis herd breakdowns in Spain 2009/2011.

    Sintayehu Guta;Jordi Casal;Sebastian Napp;Jose Luis Saez

  • Seroprevalence and risk factors associated with Toxoplasma gondii infection in pig farms from Catalonia, north-eastern Spain.

    I. García-Bocanegra;J.P. Dubey;M. Simon-Grifé;O. Cabezón

  • Taenia solium in Europe: Still endemic?

    Brecht Devleesschauwer;Alberto Allepuz;Veronique Dermauw;Maria V Johansen

  • Economic impact of bovine cysticercosis and taeniosis caused by Taenia saginata in Belgium

    Famke Jansen;Famke Jansen;Pierre Dorny;Pierre Dorny;Chiara Trevisan;Veronique Dermauw

  • Persistence of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H7N1) in infected chickens: feather as a suitable sample for diagnosis.

    Núria Busquets;F. Xavier Abad;Anna Alba;Roser Dolz

  • Introduction de Culicoides infectés par le transport de marchandises

    Sebastian Napp;Alberto Allepuz;Anna Alba;Jordi Casal

  • Evaluation de la probabilité d'hivernage du virus de la fièvre catarrhale ovine par transmission horizontale chez les vecteurs, les ruminants ou les deux : application en Allemagne

    Sebastian Napp;S. Gubbins;P. Calistri;Alberto Allepuz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordi Casal
Jordi Casal Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ignacio García-Bocanegra
Ignacio García-Bocanegra University of Córdoba
Pierre Dorny
Pierre Dorny Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Enric Mateu
Enric Mateu Autonomous University of Barcelona
Mariano Domingo
Mariano Domingo Autonomous University of Barcelona
Sarah Gabriël
Sarah Gabriël Ghent University
Joaquim Segalés
Joaquim Segalés Autonomous University of Barcelona
Oscar Cabezón
Oscar Cabezón Autonomous University of Barcelona
Simon Gubbins
Simon Gubbins The Pirbright Institute
Bethan V. Purse
Bethan V. Purse University of Glasgow

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