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Claude Saegerman

Claude Saegerman

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
62
Citations
17342
World Ranking
283
National Ranking
16

Overview

Claude Saegerman is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium and has a substantial body of research focused primarily on agricultural and biological sciences as well as medicine. Their work spans a broad range within these fields, with significant contributions to infectious diseases, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, agronomy and crop science, epidemiology, and parasitology.

The scientist has published extensively in research areas such as animal disease management and epidemiology, vector-borne animal diseases, viral infections and vectors, vector-borne infectious diseases, zoonotic diseases and public health, insect and pesticide research, and plant and animal studies.

Some of the recent published papers by Claude Saegerman include:

  • Prioritizing changes in management practices associated with reduced winter honey bee colony losses for US beekeepers (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Comparative Evaluation of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus-Based Live Attenuated Vaccines (2021) in Vaccines
  • Pesticide and veterinary drug residues in Belgian beeswax: Occurrence, toxicity, and risk to honey bees (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biosecurity Concept: Origins, Evolution and Perspectives (2021) in Animals
  • Lumpy Skin Disease: A Systematic Review of Mode of Transmission, Risk of Emergence and Risk Entry Pathway (2023) in Viruses

Claude Saegerman has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Véronique Renault
  • Marie-France Humblet
  • Jorge Ron-Román
  • Laurent Gillet
  • Laetitia Lempereur

Their research has been published repeatedly in several journals, among which the most frequent venues are:

  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Pathogens
  • Viruses
  • PLoS ONE
  • Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE

Best Publications

  • Colony Collapse Disorder: A Descriptive Study

    Dennis vanEngelsdorp;Jay D. Evans;Claude Saegerman;Chris Mullin

  • Antimicrobial resistance in the food chain: a review.

    Claire Verraes;Sigrid Van Boxstael;Eva Van Meervenne;Els Van Coillie

  • Bluetongue epidemiology in the European Union.

    Claude Saegerman;Dirk Berkvens;Philip S. Mellor

  • Brucellosis at the animal/ecosystem/human interface at the beginning of the 21st century

    J. Godfroid;H. C. Scholz;T. Barbier;C. Nicolas

  • Diagnosis of Brucellosis in Livestock and Wildlife

    Jacques Godfroid;Klaus Nielsen;Claude Saegerman

  • Classification of worldwide bovine tuberculosis risk factors in cattle: a stratified approach

    Marie-France Humblet;Maria Laura Boschiroli;Claude Saegerman

  • A clear and present danger tick borne diseases in Europe

    Paul Heyman;Christel Cochez;Agnetha Hofhuis;Joke van der Giessen

  • The Belgian PCB/dioxin incident: analysis of the food chain contamination and health risk evaluation.

    Alfred Bernard;Fabrice Broeckaert;Geert De Poorter;Ann De Cock

  • Q Fever: Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives of Research of a Neglected Zoonosis

    Sarah Rebecca Porter;Guy Czaplicki;Jacques Mainil;Raphaël Guattéo

  • Bluetongue in northern Europe.

    Etienne Thiry;Claude Saegerman;Hugues Guyot;Philippe Kirten

  • Proposed terms and concepts for describing and evaluating animal-health surveillance systems

    L.J. Hoinville;L. Alban;J.A. Drewe;J.C. Gibbens

  • Current status of scrapie

    Claude Saegerman;Emmanuel Vanopdenbosch;Dirk Berkvens

  • How to substantiate eradication of bovine brucellosis when aspecific serological reactions occur in the course of brucellosis testing.

    Jacques Godfroid;Claude Saegerman;Vincent Wellemans;Karl Walravens

  • Brucellosis in terrestrial wildlife.

    Jacques Godfroid;B. Garin-Bastuji;C. Saegerman;J.M. Blasco

  • Surveillance systems evaluation: a systematic review of the existing approaches

    Clémentine Calba;Clémentine Calba;Flavie Goutard;Linda Hoinville;Pascal Hendrikx

  • Systematic Review of Efficacy of Nutraceuticals to Alleviate Clinical Signs of Osteoarthritis

    Jean-Michel Vandeweerd;C. Coisnon;P. Clegg;Carole Cambier

  • A survey of the transmission of infectious diseases/infections between wild and domestic ungulates in Europe.

    Claire Martin;Claire Martin;Paul-Pierre Pastoret;Bernard Brochier;Marie-France Humblet

  • Ticks and associated pathogens collected from dogs and cats in Belgium

    Edwin Claerebout;Bertrand Losson;Christel Cochez;Stijn Casaert

  • Seroprevalence and potential risk factors for Brucella spp. infection in traditional cattle, sheep and goats reared in urban, periurban and rural areas of Niger.

    Abdou Razac Boukary;Claude Saegerman;Emmanuel Abatih;David Fretin

  • Zoonoses in pet birds: review and perspectives

    Geraldine Boseret;Bertrand Losson;Jacques G Mainil;Etienne Thiry

  • Evidence-Based Semiquantitative Methodology for Prioritization of Foodborne Zoonoses

    Sabine Cardoen;Xavier Van Huffel;Dirk Berkvens;Sophie Quoilin

  • Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and bee age impact honey bee pathophysiology.

    Dennis vanEngelsdorp;Kirsten S. Traynor;Michael Andree;Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Elinor M. Lichtenberg

  • Veterinary Clinics of North America. Food Animal Practice

    Claude Saegerman;Marie-France Humblet;Sarah Porter;G. Zanella

  • Ticks and associated pathogens collected from dogs and cats in Belgium

    Edwin Claerebout;L Lempereur;C Cochez;A-C Dalemans

Frequent Co-Authors

Etienne Thiry
Etienne Thiry University of Liège
Dirk Berkvens
Dirk Berkvens Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Bertrand Losson
Bertrand Losson University of Liège
Eric Haubruge
Eric Haubruge University of Liège
Jeroen Dewulf
Jeroen Dewulf Ghent University
Jacques Godfroid
Jacques Godfroid University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Jean-Jacques Letesson
Jean-Jacques Letesson University of Namur
Edwin Claerebout
Edwin Claerebout Ghent University
Paul-Pierre Pastoret
Paul-Pierre Pastoret University of Liège
Frédéric Francis
Frédéric Francis Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

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