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Overview

Antonio Scala is affiliated with the University of Sassari in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on parasitology and related disciplines within medicine and immunology. Scala's body of work covers a range of topics linked to parasitic infections in both humans and animals, as well as parasite biology, diagnostics, and host interactions.

Among the notable recent papers authored by Scala or closely associated with their research include:

  • Raw meat based diet (RMBD) for household pets as potential door opener to parasitic load of domestic and urban environment. Revival of understated zoonotic hazards? A review, 2021, One Health
  • The honey bee (Apis mellifera L., 1758) and the seasonal adaptation of productions. Highlights on summer to winter transition and back to summer metabolic activity. A review, 2020, Livestock Science
  • Taenia multiceps coenurosis: a review, 2022, Parasites & Vectors
  • Gastrointestinal Strongyles Egg Excretion in Relation to Age, Gender, and Management of Horses in Italy, 2020, Animals
  • Cryptosporidium infections in sheep farms from Italy, 2020, Parasitology Research

Scala has worked extensively in areas including pathology and forensic medicine, ecology, and veterinary science related to small animals and surgery.

Their research is spread mainly across the following fields of study:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology

Frequent publication venues for Scala's work include:

  • Parasitology Research
  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Parasitology
  • Acta Parasitologica
  • One Health

Key research topics that recurred throughout Scala's publications are:

  • Parasitic infections in humans and animals
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
  • Helminth infection and control
  • Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Rabies epidemiology and control

Antonio Scala has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Claudia Tamponi
  • Antonio Varcasia
  • Giorgia Dessì
  • Fahad Ahmed
  • Lia Cavallo

Best Publications

  • The influence of flotation solution, sample dilution and the choice of McMaster slide area (volume) on the reliability of the McMaster technique in estimating the faecal egg counts of gastrointestinal strongyles and Dicrocoelium dendriticum in sheep

    G Cringoli;L Rinaldi;V Veneziano;G Capelli

  • Molecular characterization of Echinococcus granulosus in sheep and goats of Peloponnesus, Greece.

    Antonio Varcasia;Sara Canu;A. Kogkos;Anna Paola Pipia

  • Molecular characterization of Echinococcus granulosus strains in Sardinia

    Antonio Varcasia;Sara Canu;Marshall W. Lightowlers;Antonio Scala

  • Cystic echinococcosis in slaughtered sheep in Sardinia (Italy).

    Antonio Scala;Giovanni Garippa;Antonio Varcasia;V.M. Tranquillo

  • A survey of Taenia multiceps coenurosis in Sardinian sheep

    Antonio Scala;Giovanna Maria Cancedda;Antonio Varcasia;Ciriaco Ligios

  • Cystic echinococcosis in Sardinia: farmers' knowledge and dog infection in sheep farms.

    Antonio Varcasia;B. Tanda;M. Giobbe;C. Solinas

  • Updates on morphobiology, epidemiology and molecular characterization of coenurosis in sheep.

    Antonio Scala;Antonio Varcasia

  • Epidemiological updates and economic losses due to Taenia hydatigena in sheep from Sardinia, Italy

    Antonio Scala;Anna Paola Pipia;Fausto Dore;Giuliana Sanna

  • Cystic echinococcosis in Italy from the 1950s to present

    Giovanni Garippa;Antonio Varcasia;Antonio Scala

  • Sheep oestrosis (Oestrus ovis Linné 1761, Diptera: Oestridae) in Sardinia, Italy.

    A. Scala;G. Solinas;C.V. Citterio;L.H. Kramer

  • Cystic echinococcosis in equids in Italy

    Antonio Varcasia;Giovanni Garippa;Anna Paola Pipia;Antonio Scala

  • Molecular characterisation and risk factor analysis of Cryptosporidium spp. in calves from Italy

    P. Díaz;A. Varcasia;A. P. Pipia;C. Tamponi

  • Ultrasound as a monitoring tool for cystic echinococcosis in sheep.

    F. Dore;A. Varcasia;A.P. Pipia;G. Sanna

  • New insights on metastrongyloid lungworms infecting cats of Sardinia, Italy.

    C. Tamponi;A. Varcasia;E. Brianti;A.P. Pipia

  • Traumatic myiasis by Wohlfahrtia magnifica in Italy.

    Annunziata Giangaspero;Donato Traversa;Roberto Trentini;Antonio Scala

  • Genetic variation within Taenia multiceps in Sardinia, Western Mediterranean (Italy).

    Antonio Varcasia;Marshall W. Lightowlers;Giovanni Cattoli;Giovanna Maria Cancedda

  • The honey bee (Apis mellifera L., 1758) and the seasonal adaptation of productions. Highlights on summer to winter transition and back to summer metabolic activity. A review

    Stephane Knoll;Walter Pinna;Antonio Varcasia;Antonio Scala

  • Raw meat based diet (RMBD) for household pets as potential door opener to parasitic load of domestic and urban environment. Revival of understated zoonotic hazards? A review.

    Fahad Ahmed;Maria Grazia Cappai;Sarah Morrone;Lia Cavallo

  • Angiostrongylus chabaudi Biocca, 1957: a new parasite for domestic cats?

    Antonio Varcasia;Claudia Tamponi;Emanuele Brianti;Piera Angela Cabras

  • Preliminary field trial of a vaccine against coenurosis caused by Taenia multiceps

    A. Varcasia;G. Tosciri;G.N. Sanna Coccone;A.P. Pipia

  • A preliminary investigation into the genetic variation and population structure of Taenia hydatigena from Sardinia, Italy.

    Belgees Boufana;Antonio Scala;Samia Lahmar;Steve Pointing

  • Acute visceral cysticercosis by Taenia hydatigena in lambs and treatment with praziquantel.

    Antonio Scala;Giovanni Urrai;Antonio Varcasia;Paola Nicolussi

  • Redescription of Cercopithifilaria bainae Almeida & Vicente, 1984 (Spirurida, Onchocercidae) from a dog in Sardinia, Italy.

    Domenico Otranto;Antonio Varcasia;Cinzia Solinas;Antonio Scala

  • Strongylus vulgaris (Looss, 1900) in horses in Italy: Is it still a problem?

    Cristian Pilo;A. Altea;Salvatore Pirino;Paola Sandra Nicolussi

  • The diagnosis of Echinococcus granulosus in dogs.

    Antonio Varcasia;Giovanni Garippa;Antonio Scala

  • Molecular characterization of subcutaneous and muscular coenurosis of goats in United Arab Emirates.

    Antonio Varcasia;W. Z. Jia;H. B. Yan;Maria Lucia Gabriella M. Manunta

  • Prevalence of Neospora caninum infection in Sardinian dairy farms (Italy) detected by iscom ELISA on tank bulk milk

    Antonio Varcasia;Gioia Capelli;Angelo Ruiu;Maria Gabriela Ladu

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Varcasia
Antonio Varcasia University of Sassari
Giovanni Garippa
Giovanni Garippa University of Sassari
Emanuele Brianti
Emanuele Brianti University of Messina
Domenico Otranto
Domenico Otranto University of Bari Aldo Moro
Marco Genchi
Marco Genchi University of Parma
Gabriella Gaglio
Gabriella Gaglio University of Messina
Giuseppe Cringoli
Giuseppe Cringoli University of Naples Federico II
Filipe Dantas-Torres
Filipe Dantas-Torres Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Laura Rinaldi
Laura Rinaldi University of Naples Federico II
Gioia Capelli
Gioia Capelli Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie

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