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Animal Science and Veterinary
Romania
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
29
Citations
2635
World Ranking
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National Ranking
2

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

Attila D. Sándor is affiliated with the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca in Romania. Their research spans several fields of study including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine, with a significant focus on parasitology and vector-borne diseases.

Sándor's main areas of work encompass diverse topics such as vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, and research on Yersinia bacterium, plague, and ectoparasites. Other topics of interest include bat biology and ecology studies, vector-borne animal diseases, bird parasitology and diseases, as well as insect and pesticide research.

Frequent publication venues where Sándor has contributed include Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Parasites & Vectors, and Frontiers in Veterinary Science. Additional venues include Acta Veterinaria Hungarica and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Sándor are:

  • Argasid Ticks of Palearctic Bats: Distribution, Host Selection, and Zoonotic Importance, 2021, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) associated with birds in Europe: Review of literature data, 2022, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • On the way between Africa and Europe: Molecular taxonomy of ticks collected from birds in Malta, 2022, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • 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
  • Molecular epidemiological study on ticks and tick-borne protozoan parasites (Apicomplexa: Cytauxzoon and Hepatozoon spp.) from wild cats (Felis silvestris), Mustelidae and red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in central Europe, Hungary, 2022, Parasites & Vectors

Sándor frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Sándor Hornok
  • Andrei Daniel Mihalca
  • Áron Péter
  • Nóra Takács
  • Jenő Kontschán

The subfields of study that most align with Sándor's work include parasitology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, infectious diseases, genetics, and insect science.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Molecular detection of vector-borne bacteria in bat ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) from eight countries of the Old and New Worlds

    Sándor Hornok;Krisztina Szőke;Marina L. Meli;Attila D. Sándor

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

    Andrei Daniel Mihalca;Attila D Sándor

  • Ixodid ticks in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from Romania

    MO Dumitrache;G D'Amico;IA Matei;A Ionică

  • Contributions to the phylogeny of Ixodes (Pholeoixodes) canisuga, I. (Ph.) kaiseri, I. (Ph.) hexagonus and a simple pictorial key for the identification of their females

    Sándor Hornok;Attila D. Sándor;Relja Beck;Róbert Farkas

  • 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

  • DNA of piroplasms of ruminants and dogs in ixodid bat ticks

    Sándor Hornok;Krisztina Szőke;Dávid Kováts;Péter Estók

  • Tick parasites of rodents in Romania: host preferences, community structure and geographical distribution

    Andrei D Mihalca;Mirabela O Dumitrache;Attila D Sándor;Cristian Magdaş

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

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

  • East and west separation of Rhipicephalus sanguineus mitochondrial lineages in the Mediterranean Basin

    Sándor Hornok;Attila D. Sándor;Snežana Tomanović;Relja Beck

  • Eco-epidemiology of Novel Bartonella Genotypes from Parasitic Flies of Insectivorous Bats

    Attila D. Sándor;Mihály Földvári;Mihály Földvári;Aleksandra I. Krawczyk;Hein Sprong

  • Host Phylogeny, Geographic Overlap, and Roost Sharing Shape Parasite Communities in European Bats

    Clifton D. McKee;Clifton D. McKee;Aleksandra I. Krawczyk;Attila D. Sándor;Tamás Görföl

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

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

  • Argasid Ticks of Palearctic Bats: Distribution, Host Selection, and Zoonotic Importance

    Attila D Sándor;Andrei Daniel Mihalca;Cristian Domşa;Áron Péter

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

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

  • Parasites of parasites of bats: Laboulbeniales (Fungi: Ascomycota) on bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) in central Europe.

    Danny Haelewaters;Walter P. Pfliegler;Tamara Szentiványi;Tamara Szentiványi;Mihály Földvári

  • High Diversity, Prevalence, and Co-infection Rates of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ticks and Wildlife Hosts in an Urban Area in Romania

    Silvia-Diana Borşan;Angela Monica Ionică;Clémence Galon;Andra Toma-Naic

  • Do the Ticks of Birds at an Important Migratory Hotspot Reflect the Seasonal Dynamics of Ixodes ricinus at the Migration Initiation Site? A Case Study in the Danube Delta

    Attila D. Sándor;Daniel I. Mărcuţan;Gianluca D'Amico;Călin M. Gherman

  • 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

  • First report of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in two threatened carnivores: the Marbled polecat, Vormela peregusna and the European mink, Mustela lutreola (Mammalia: Mustelidae)

    Călin M Gherman;Attila D Sándor;Attila D Sándor;Zsuzsa Kalmár;Mihai Marinov

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

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

  • Ixodes ricinus is the dominant questing tick in forest habitats in Romania: the results from a countrywide dragging campaign

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei Daniel Mihalca
Andrei Daniel Mihalca University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Sándor Hornok
Sándor Hornok University of Veterinary Medicine
Călin Mircea Gherman
Călin Mircea Gherman University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
Gianluca D’Amico
Gianluca D’Amico University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Gábor Földvári
Gábor Földvári University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Vasile Cozma
Vasile Cozma University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
David Modrý
David Modrý University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jan Votýpka
Jan Votýpka Charles University
Róbert Farkas
Róbert Farkas University of Veterinary Medicine
Hans-Peter Fuehrer
Hans-Peter Fuehrer University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

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