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Animal Science and Veterinary
Romania
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
41
Citations
6280
World Ranking
1075
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Romania Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Romania Leader Award

Overview

Andrei Daniel Mihalca is affiliated with the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca in Romania. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields primarily focusing on Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. These domains encompass a body of work rooted in infectious diseases, parasitology, ecology, and public health.

The scientist's publication record includes significant contributions to topics such as viral infections and vectors, vector-borne infectious diseases, parasite biology and host interactions, vector-borne animal diseases, parasitic diseases research and treatment, mosquito-borne diseases and control, and research on Yersinia bacterium, plague, and ectoparasites.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Angela Monica Ionică, Georgiana Deak, Călin Mircea Gherman, Attila D. Sándor, and Cristina Daniela Cazan, indicating strong collaborative networks within parasitology and vector-borne disease studies.

Research outputs are mostly published in recognized journals with repeated contributions to venues like Parasites & Vectors, Veterinary Parasitology Regional Studies and Reports, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Pathogens, and Veterinary Parasitology. This demonstrates a consistent engagement with specialized publications addressing parasitic and vector-borne infections.

Notable recent papers illustrate the scope of their work:

  • Tick-borne diseases and co-infection: Current considerations, 2020, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • Three new species of Cytauxzoon in European wild felids, 2021, Veterinary Parasitology
  • TroCCAP recommendations for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of parasitic infections in dogs and cats in the tropics, 2020, Veterinary Parasitology
  • Argasid Ticks of Palearctic Bats: Distribution, Host Selection, and Zoonotic Importance, 2021, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • High Diversity, Prevalence, and Co-infection Rates of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ticks and Wildlife Hosts in an Urban Area in Romania, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

The subfields of study represented in the scientist's work include infectious diseases, parasitology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and public health with overlapping interests in environmental and occupational health.

Best Publications

  • Zoonotic Parasites of Sheltered and Stray Dogs in the Era of the Global Economic and Political Crisis

    Domenico Otranto;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Andrei D. Mihalca;Rebecca J. Traub

  • Lungworms and gastrointestinal parasites of domestic cats: a European perspective

    Alessio Giannelli;Gioia Capelli;Anja Joachim;Barbara Hinney

  • A review on the eco-epidemiology and clinical management of human granulocytic anaplasmosis and its agent in Europe

    Ioana A. Matei;Agustín Estrada-Peña;Sally J. Cutler;Muriel Vayssier-Taussat

  • Seroprevalence and Geographic Distribution of Dirofilaria immitis and Tick-Borne Infections (Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, and Ehrlichia canis) in Dogs from Romania

    Viorica Mircean;Mirabela Oana Dumitrache;Adriana Györke;Nikola Pantchev

  • Synopsis of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Romania with update on host associations and geographical distribution

    A. D. Mihalca;M. O. Dumitrache;C. Magdaş;C. M. Gherman

  • A Blueprint to Evaluate One Health.

    Simon R. Rüegg;Barry J. McMahon;Barbara Häsler;Roberto Esposito

  • Tick-borne diseases and co-infection: Current considerations.

    Sally J. Cutler;Muriel Vayssier-Taussat;Agustín Estrada-Peña;Aleksandar Potkonjak

  • Borrelia Diversity and Co-infection with Other Tick Borne Pathogens in Ticks.

    Cristian Raileanu;Sara Moutailler;Ionuţ Pavel;Daniela Porea

  • An updated meta-analysis of the distribution and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in ticks in Europe.

    Agustín Estrada-Peña;Sally Cutler;Aleksandar Potkonjak;Muriel Vassier-Tussaut

  • Hyalomma aegyptium as dominant tick in tortoises of the genus Testudo in Balkan countries, with notes on its host preferences.

    Pavel Široký;Klára J. Petrželková;Martin Kamler;Andrei D. Mihalca

  • The role of rodents in the ecology of Ixodes ricinus and associated pathogens in Central and Eastern Europe

    Andrei Daniel Mihalca;Attila D Sándor

  • Emerging horizons for tick-borne pathogens: from the 'one pathogen-one disease' vision to the pathobiome paradigm.

    Muriel Vayssier-Taussat;Maria Kazimirova;Zdenek Hubalek;Sándor Hornok

  • Integrated morphological and molecular identification of cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) and dog fleas (Ctenocephalides canis) vectoring Rickettsia felis in central Europe.

    Andrea L. Lawrence;Sze-Fui Hii;Dagmar Jirsová;Lucia Panáková

  • Current surveys on the prevalence and distribution of Dirofilaria spp. and Acanthocheilonema reconditum infections in dogs in Romania.

    Angela Monica Ionică;Ioana Adriana Matei;Viorica Mircean;Mirabela Oana Dumitrache

  • Coendangered hard-ticks: threatened or threatening?

    Andrei Daniel Mihalca;Călin Mircea Gherman;Vasile Cozma

  • Out-of-Africa, human-mediated dispersal of the common cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis: The hitchhiker's guide to world domination.

    Andrea L. Lawrence;Cameron E. Webb;Nicholas J. Clark;Ali Halajian

  • A new Borrelia on the block: Borrelia miyamotoi - a human health risk?

    Sally Cutler;Muriel Vayssier-Taussat;Agustín Estrada-Peña;Aleksandar Potkonjak

  • Zoonotic pathogens associated with Hyalomma aegyptium in endangered tortoises: evidence for host-switching behaviour in ticks?

    Anamaria I Paștiu;Ioana A Matei;Andrei D Mihalca;Gianluca D’Amico

  • Neglected vector-borne zoonoses in Europe: Into the wild.

    Laura Tomassone;Eduardo Berriatua;Rita De Sousa;Gerhard Georg Duscher

  • Three new species of Cytauxzoon in European wild felids.

    Luciana Cătălina Panait;Andrei Daniel Mihalca;David Modrý;David Modrý;Jana Juránková

  • A synoptic overview of golden jackal parasites reveals high diversity of species.

    Călin Mircea Gherman;Andrei Daniel Mihalca

  • Filarioid infections in wild carnivores: a multispecies survey in Romania

    Angela Monica Ionică;Ioana Adriana Matei;Gianluca D’Amico;Jana Ababii

  • A comparative test of ixodid tick identification by a network of European researchers.

    Agustin Estrada-Pena;Gianluca d'Amico;Ana Maria Palomar;Marlène Dupraz

  • TroCCAP recommendations for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of parasitic infections in dogs and cats in the tropics

    Filipe Dantas-Torres;Jennifer Ketzis;Andrei D Mihalca;Gad Baneth

  • Eurasian golden jackal as host of canine vector-borne protists

    Barbora Mitková;Kristýna Hrazdilová;Gianluca D’Amico;Georg Gerhard Duscher

  • Bats and ticks: host selection and seasonality of bat-specialist ticks in eastern Europe

    Attila D. Sándor;Alexandra Corduneanu;Áron Péter;Andrei Daniel Mihalca

  • Ticks imported to Europe with exotic reptiles.

    Andrei Daniel Mihalca

  • Babesia vesperuginis, a neglected piroplasmid: new host and geographical records, and phylogenetic relations.

    Alexandra Corduneanu;Kristýna Hrazdilová;Attila D. Sándor;Ioana Adriana Matei

  • Co-distribution pattern of a haemogregarine Hemolivia mauritanica (Apicomplexa: Haemogregarinidae) and its vector Hyalomma aegyptium (Metastigmata: Ixodidae).

    Pavel Široký;Peter Mikulíček;David Jandzík;Hajigholi Kami

  • A tsetse and tabanid fly survey of African great apes habitats reveals the presence of a novel trypanosome lineage but the absence of Trypanosoma brucei

    Jan Votýpka;Jana Rádrová;Tomáš Skalický;Milan Jirků

  • Molecular detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from Romania

    Mirabela Oana Dumitrache;Ioana Adriana Matei;Angela Monica Ionică;Zsuzsa Kalmár

  • Molecular detection of Anaplasma platys infection in free-roaming dogs and ticks from Kenya and Ivory Coast

    Ioana Adriana Matei;Gianluca D’Amico;Patrick K. Yao;Angela Monica Ionică

  • Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks of migratory birds in Romania

    Ioan-Daniel Mărcuţan;Zsuzsa Kalmár;Angela Monica Ionică;Gianluca D’Amico

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianluca D’Amico
Gianluca D’Amico University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Călin Mircea Gherman
Călin Mircea Gherman University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
David Modrý
David Modrý University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Attila D. Sándor
Attila D. Sándor University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Vasile Cozma
Vasile Cozma University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Sándor Hornok
Sándor Hornok University of Veterinary Medicine
Domenico Otranto
Domenico Otranto University of Bari Aldo Moro
Jan Votýpka
Jan Votýpka Charles University
Muriel Vayssier-Taussat
Muriel Vayssier-Taussat University of Rennes
Agustín Estrada-Peña
Agustín Estrada-Peña University of Zaragoza

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