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Beatriz Martínez-López is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans across Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Agronomy and Crop Science, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Microbiology.

The primary topics explored in their work include Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Zoonotic diseases and public health, Microbial infections and disease research, Viral Infections and Vectors, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Their recent papers include the following publications:

  • Climate change and zoonoses: A review of the current status, knowledge gaps, and future trends, 2021, Acta Tropica
  • Dynamic Network of Interactions in the Wildlife-Livestock Interface in Mediterranean Spain: An Epidemiological Point of View, 2020, Pathogens
  • Synergistic China-US Ecological Research is Essential for Global Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness, 2020, EcoHealth
  • An Updated Review of Ornithodoros Ticks as Reservoirs of African Swine Fever in Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, 2023, Pathogens
  • Foot-and-Mouth Disease Space-Time Clusters and Risk Factors in Cattle and Buffalo in Bangladesh, 2020, Pathogens

Beatriz Martínez-López has frequently published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • PLoS ONE
  • Pathogens

Frequent coauthors collaborating with them include Alda F. A. Pires, José Pablo Gómez-Vázquez, María J. Clavijo, José Manuel Díaz Cao, and Xin Liu, each contributing to multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Social Network Analysis. Review of General Concepts and Use in Preventive Veterinary Medicine

    B. Martínez-López;A. M. Perez;J. M. Sánchez-Vizcaíno

  • African swine fever: an epidemiological update.

    J. M. Sánchez-Vizcaíno;L. Mur;B. Martínez-López

  • African swine fever (ASF): five years around Europe.

    José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno;Lina Mur;Beatriz Martínez-López;Beatriz Martínez-López

  • Crossing the interspecies barrier: opening the door to zoonotic pathogens.

    Christian Gortazar;Leslie A. Reperant;Thijs Kuiken;José de la Fuente;José de la Fuente

  • Thirty-Five-Year Presence of African Swine Fever in Sardinia: History, Evolution and Risk Factors for Disease Maintenance

    L. Mur;M. Atzeni;B. Martínez-López;B. Martínez-López;F. Feliziani

  • Assessing the Risk of African Swine Fever Introduction into the European Union by Wild Boar.

    A. De la Torre;J. Bosch;I. Iglesias;M. J. Muñoz

  • Risk of African swine fever introduction into the European Union through transport-associated routes: returning trucks and waste from international ships and planes.

    Lina Mur;Beatriz Martínez-López;José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno

  • Introduction of African Swine Fever into the European Union through Illegal Importation of Pork and Pork Products

    Solenne Costard;Bryony Anne Jones;Beatriz Martínez-López;Beatriz Martínez-López;Lina Mur

  • Unraveling the contact patterns and network structure of pig shipments in the United States and its association with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) outbreaks.

    Kyuyoung Lee;Dale Polson;Erin Lowe;Rodger Main

  • Quantitative Risk Assessment for the Introduction of African Swine Fever Virus into the European Union by Legal Import of Live Pigs

    L. Mur;B. Martínez-López;M. Martínez-Avilés;S. Costard

  • Quantitative risk assessment of foot-and-mouth disease introduction into Spain via importation of live animals.

    B. Martínez-López;A. M. Perez;A. M. Perez;A. De la Torre;J. M.Sánchez Vizcaíno Rodriguez

  • Monitoring of African swine fever in the wild boar population of the most recent endemic area of Spain.

    L. Mur;M. Boadella;B. Martínez-López;B. Martínez-López;C. Gallardo

  • Systematic review of surveillance systems and methods for early detection of exotic, new and re-emerging diseases in animal populations.

    V. Rodríguez-Prieto;M. Vicente-Rubiano;A. Sánchez-Matamoros;C. Rubio-Guerri

  • Combined application of social network and cluster detection analyses for temporal-spatial characterization of animal movements in Salamanca, Spain.

    B. Martínez-López;A.M. Perez;A.M. Perez;J.M. Sánchez-Vizcaíno

  • A novel spatial and stochastic model to evaluate the within- and between-farm transmission of classical swine fever virus. I. General concepts and description of the model.

    B. Martínez-López;B. Ivorra;A.M. Ramos;J.M. Sánchez-Vizcaíno

  • A Bayesian approach to study the risk variables for tuberculosis occurrence in domestic and wild ungulates in South Central Spain

    Víctor Rodríguez-Prieto;Beatriz Martínez-López;Beatriz Martínez-López;José Ángel Barasona;Pelayo Acevedo

  • Risk of African swine fever virus introduction into the United States through smuggling of pork in air passenger luggage.

    Cristina Jurado;Cristina Jurado;Lina Mur;María Sol Pérez Aguirreburualde;Estefanía Cadenas-Fernández

  • Understanding African Swine Fever infection dynamics in Sardinia using a spatially explicit transmission model in domestic pig farms.

    L. Mur;J. M. Sánchez-Vizcaíno;E. Fernández-Carrión;C. Jurado

  • Motion-based video monitoring for early detection of livestock diseases: The case of African swine fever

    Eduardo Fernández-Carrión;Marta Martínez-Avilés;Benjamin Ivorra;Beatriz Martínez-López

  • Low colostrum yield in Jersey cattle and potential risk factors

    K. Gavin;H. Neibergs;A. Hoffman;J.N. Kiser

  • Dynamic Network of Interactions in the Wildlife-Livestock Interface in Mediterranean Spain: An Epidemiological Point of View.

    Roxana Triguero-Ocaña;Beatriz Martínez-López;Joaquín Vicente;José A. Barasona

  • Spatial and Functional Organization of Pig Trade in Different European Production Systems: Implications for Disease Prevention and Control

    Anne Relun;Anne Relun;Vladimir Grosbois;José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno;Tsviatko Alexandrov

  • Evaluation of the risk factors contributing to the African swine fever occurrence in Sardinia, Italy.

    Beatriz Martínez-López;Andres M. Perez;Francesco Feliziani;Sandro Rolesu

  • Scientific review on African Swine Fever

    Jose Manuel Sánchez‐Vizcaíno;Beatriz Martínez‐López;Marta Martínez‐Avilés;Carlos Martins

  • Quantitative approach for the risk assessment of African swine fever and Classical swine fever introduction into the United States through legal imports of pigs and swine products.

    Diana María Herrera-Ibatá;Beatriz Martínez-López;Darla Quijada;Kenneth Burton

  • The use of infrared thermography as a non-invasive method for fever detection in sheep infected with bluetongue virus

    Ana C. Pérez de Diego;Pedro J. Sánchez-Cordón;Miriam Pedrera;Beatriz Martínez-López;Beatriz Martínez-López

Frequent Co-Authors

José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno
José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno Complutense University of Madrid
Andres M Perez
Andres M Perez University of Minnesota
Christian Gortázar
Christian Gortázar University of Castilla-La Mancha
Dirk U. Pfeiffer
Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong
Joaquín Vicente
Joaquín Vicente University of Castilla-La Mancha
Barbara Wieland
Barbara Wieland Institute of Virology and Immunology
Véronique Chevalier
Véronique Chevalier Institut Pasteur
Philip H. Kass
Philip H. Kass University of California, Davis
Simon J. More
Simon J. More University College Dublin
Tim E. Carpenter
Tim E. Carpenter University of California, Davis

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