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Animal Science and Veterinary
Denmark
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Anette Bøtner is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Medicine. Their work encompasses a significant number of publications focusing mainly on Infectious Diseases, Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Animal Science and Zoology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The primary areas of research include Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Animal Virus Infections Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Viral Infections and Immunology Research, and Virus-based gene therapy research.

Frequent publication venues for Bøtner's work include:

  • Viruses
  • EFSA Journal
  • Pathogens
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Bøtner has been involved in multiple research papers, including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 Transmission between Mink (Neovison vison) and Humans, Denmark, 2020, Emerging infectious diseases
  • Preliminary report of an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in mink and mink farmers associated with community spread, Denmark, June to November 2020, 2021, Eurosurveillance
  • Risk factors for African swine fever incursion in Romanian domestic farms during 2019, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • SARS-CoV-2 in Danish Mink Farms: Course of the Epidemic and a Descriptive Analysis of the Outbreaks in 2020, 2021, Animals
  • Potential routes for indirect transmission of African swine fever virus into domestic pig herds, 2020, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Bøtner collaborates frequently with several scientists, including:

  • Graham J. Belsham
  • Thomas Bruun Rasmussen
  • Anette Boklund
  • Louise Lohse
  • Ann Sofie Olesen

Best Publications

  • Isolation and characterisation of circoviruses from pigs with wasting syndromes in Spain, Denmark and Northern Ireland.

    G.M Allan;F Mc Neilly;B.M Meehan;S Kennedy

  • Appearance of acute PRRS-like symptoms in sow herds after vaccination with a modified live PRRS vaccine

    Anette Bøtner;Bertel Strandbygaard;K. J. Sørensen;P. Have

  • Reversion of a live porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus vaccine investigated by parallel mutations.

    Henriette S. Nielsen;Martin B. Oleksiewicz;Roald Forsberg;Tomasz Stadejek

  • Reproduction of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) in immunostimulated and non-immunostimulated 3-week-old piglets experimentally infected with porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2).

    A.S. Ladekjær-Mikkelsen;Jens Nielsen;T. Stadejek;Torben Storgaard

  • Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (swine)

    Olivier Andreoletti;Herbert Budka;Sava Buncic;John D Collins

  • SARS-CoV-2 Transmission between Mink (Neovison vison) and Humans, Denmark.

    Anne Sofie Hammer;Michelle Lauge Quaade;Thomas Bruun Rasmussen;Thomas Bruun Rasmussen;Jannik Fonager

  • Culicoids as vectors of Schmallenberg virus.

    Lasse Dam Rasmussen;Birgit Kristensen;Carsten Kirkeby;Thomas Bruun Rasmussen

  • Epitope mapping porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus by phage display: the nsp2 fragment of the replicase polyprotein contains a cluster of B-cell epitopes

    M. B. Oleksiewicz;A. Bøtner;P. Toft;P. Normann

  • Correlation between the presence of neutralizing antibodies against porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) and protection against replication of the virus and development of PCV2-associated disease

    Peter Meerts;Gerald Misinzo;David Lefebvre;Jens Nielsen

  • Novel porcine circoviruses from pigs with wasting disease syndromes.

    G. Allan;B. Meehan;D. Todd;S. Kennedy

  • Sequence analysis of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus of the American type collected from Danish swine herds

    K.G. Madsen;C.M. Hansen;E.S. Madsen;Bertel Strandbygaard

  • Association of lymphopenia with porcine circovirus type 2 induced postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS)

    J. Nielsen;I.E. Vincent;A. Bøtner;A.-S. Ladekjær-Mikkelsen

  • The genetic diversity of European type PRRSV is similar to that of the North American type but is geographically skewed within Europe.

    Roald Forsberg;Torben Storgaard;Henriette S. Nielsen;Martin B. Oleksiewicz

  • Sensitive detection and typing of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus by RT-PCR amplification of whole viral genes

    M.B Oleksiewicz;A Bøtner;K.G Madsen;T Storgaard

  • Isolation of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus in a Danish swine herd and experimental infection of pregnant gilts with the virus.

    Anette Bøtner;Jens Nielsen;Vivi Bille-Hansen

  • Transmission of African swine fever virus from infected pigs by direct contact and aerosol routes.

    Ann Sofie Olesen;Louise Lohse;Anette Boklund;Tariq Hisham Beshara Halasa

  • Infection, excretion and seroconversion dynamics of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in pigs from post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) affected farms in Spain and Denmark.

    Llorenç Grau-Roma;Charlotte K. Hjulsager;Marina Sibila;Charlotte S. Kristensen

  • Generation of an Infectious Clone of VR-2332, a Highly Virulent North American-Type Isolate of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus

    H.S. Nielsen;G. Liu;Jens Nielsen;M.B. Oleksiewicz

  • Examination of virus shedding in semen from vaccinated and from previously infected boars after experimental challenge with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

    Thomas L. Nielsen;Jens Nielsen;Per Have;Poul Bækbo

  • Preliminary report of an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in mink and mink farmers associated with community spread, Denmark, June to November 2020.

    Helle Daugaard Larsen;Jannik Fonager;Frederikke Kristensen Lomholt;Tine Dalby

  • EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW); EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare; Scientific Opinion on African Swine Fever.: EFSA-Q-2009-00506

    Anette Bøtner;Agustin Estrada Peña;Alessandro Mannelli;Barbara Wieland

  • African swine fever in wild boar.

    Simon More;Miguel Angel Miranda

  • Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission on porcine brucellosis (Brucella suis)

    B. Algers;H.J. Blokhuis;A. Bøtner;D.M. Broom

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon J. More
Simon J. More University College Dublin
Preben Willeberg
Preben Willeberg Safoso (Switzerland)
Graham J. Belsham
Graham J. Belsham University of Copenhagen
Antonio Velarde
Antonio Velarde Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Sandra A. Edwards
Sandra A. Edwards Newcastle University
Søren Saxmose Nielsen
Søren Saxmose Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Christoph Winckler
Christoph Winckler BOKU University
Jan Arend Stegeman
Jan Arend Stegeman Utrecht University
Jens Nielsen
Jens Nielsen Chalmers University of Technology
Mariano Domingo
Mariano Domingo Autonomous University of Barcelona

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