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Overview

Dennis J. Alexander is affiliated with the Animal and Plant Health Agency in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with specific focus areas including Infectious Diseases, Speech and Hearing, and Surgery.

Their work addresses several main topics, which include:

  • Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Alexander has contributed to at least two published papers. The first, titled Benefits of a broad veterinary education, was published in 2025 in the Veterinary Record. The second paper, A Fatal Case of Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis Following a COVID-19 Vaccine, appeared in 2025 in the Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports. Both papers have been cited at least once in subsequent research.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • E. Palmer
  • Melissa A. Mercer
  • D'Argent Louise
  • Lormans Piet
  • S. Bernard

Alexander's contributions to scientific literature have appeared mainly in the following venues:

  • Veterinary Record
  • Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports

Best Publications

  • A review of avian influenza in different bird species

    Dennis J Alexander

  • An overview of the epidemiology of avian influenza.

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  • Newcastle disease and other avian paramyxoviruses.

    Alexander Dj

  • Avian influenza: recent developments.

    Ilaria Capua;Dennis J Alexander

  • Recombination resulting in virulence shift in avian influenza outbreak, Chile.

    David L. Suarez;Dennis A. Senne;Jill Banks;Ian H. Brown

  • A molecular epidemiological study of avian paramyxovirus type 1 (Newcastle disease virus) isolates by phylogenetic analysis of a partial nucleotide sequence of the fusion protein gene.

    E W Aldous;J K Mynn;J Banks;D J Alexander

  • Multiple genetic reassortment of avian and human influenza A viruses in European pigs, resulting in the emergence of an H1N2 virus of novel genotype.

    I H Brown;P A Harris;J W McCauley;D J Alexander

  • Summary of Avian Influenza Activity in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia, 2002–2006

    Dennis J. Alexander

  • History of highly pathogenic avian influenza.

    D J Alexander;I H Brown

  • Gordon Memorial Lecture. Newcastle disease.

    Alexander Dj

  • Recent zoonoses caused by influenza A viruses.

    D J Alexander;I H Brown

  • Detection and differentiation of Newcastle disease virus (avian paramyxovirus type 1)

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  • A review of RT-PCR technologies used in veterinary virology and disease control: sensitive and specific diagnosis of five livestock diseases notifiable to the World Organisation for Animal Health.

    Bernd Hoffmann;Martin Beer;S M Reid;Peter P C Mertens

  • Experimental assessment of the pathogenicity of eight avian influenza A viruses of H5 subtype for chickens, turkeys, ducks and quail.

    D J Alexander;G Parsons;R J Manvell

  • The long view: a selective review of 40 years of Newcastle disease research.

    Dennis J Alexander;Elizabeth W Aldous;Chad M Fuller

  • The epidemiology and control of avian influenza and Newcastle disease

    D.J. Alexander

  • H9N2 subtype influenza A viruses in poultry in pakistan are closely related to the H9N2 viruses responsible for human infection in Hong Kong.

    K.R. Cameron;V. Gregory;J. Banks;I.H. Brown

  • Avian influenza and human health.

    Ilaria Capua;Dennis J Alexander

  • The challenge of avian influenza to the veterinary community.

    Ilaria Capua;Dennis J. Alexander

  • Avian influenza A subtype H9N2 in poultry in Pakistan

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  • H7N1 avian influenza in Italy (1999 to 2000) in intensively reared chickens and turkeys

    Ilaria Capua;Franco Mutinelli;Stefano Marangon;Dennis J. Alexander

  • Report on Avian Influenza in the Eastern Hemisphere During 1997–2002

    D. J. Alexander

  • Newcastle disease in the European Union 2000 to 2009

    Dennis J Alexander

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian H. Brown
Ian H. Brown Animal and Plant Health Agency
Ilaria Capua
Ilaria Capua University of Florida
Dennis A. Senne
Dennis A. Senne Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
David E. Swayne
David E. Swayne United States Department of Agriculture
Erica Spackman
Erica Spackman United States Department of Agriculture
Alan J. Hay
Alan J. Hay Medical Research Council
Claudio L. Afonso
Claudio L. Afonso United States Department of Agriculture
Andrew J. Easton
Andrew J. Easton University of Warwick
Martin Beer
Martin Beer Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Stefano Marangon
Stefano Marangon Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie

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