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2008
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Overview

Didier Calavas is affiliated with the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety in France. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Medicine, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to animal health and public safety.

Their research contributions focus primarily on Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, supported by work in related topics such as Zoonotic diseases and public health, Agriculture and Farm Safety, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, and Reproductive Physiology in Livestock.

Calavas has published work in several scientific venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE
  • INRAE Productions Animales

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Calavas are:

  • Designing a Syndromic Bovine Mortality Surveillance System: Lessons Learned From the 1-Year Test of the French OMAR Alert Tool, 2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • The French Epidemic Intelligence System: comparing disease surveillance at the national and international level using data from the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, 2020, Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE
  • Utilisation des données d'insémination artificielle afin d'identifier l'impact d'un évènement abortif dans les élevages de bovins laitiers, 2020, INRAE Productions Animales

Frequent collaborators include Yves Lambert, Carole Sala, Jean-Luc Vinard, Fanny Pandolfi, and Céline Dupuy. The collaboration with Yves Lambert appears most often, indicating a recurring partnership in research projects.

Their work also covers several specialized subfields within the broader areas of study:

  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Plant Science
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Best Publications

  • Distribution and Antimicrobial Resistance of Clinical and Subclinical Mastitis Pathogens in Dairy Cows in Rhône-Alpes, France

    Marie-Anne Botrel;Marisa Haenni;Eric Morignat;Philippe Sulpice

  • A descriptive study of the prevalence of atypical and classical scrapie in sheep in 20 European countries.

    Alexandre Fediaevsky;Sue C Tongue;Maria Nöremark;Didier Calavas

  • Review on the epidemiology and dynamics of BSE epidemics.

    Christian Ducrot;Mark Arnold;Aline de Koeijer;Dagmar Heim

  • Epidemiology, molecular virology and diagnostics of Schmallenberg virus, an emerging orthobunyavirus in Europe

    Virginie Doceul;Estelle Lara;Corinne Sailleau;Guillaume Belbis

  • Comparison of French natural scrapie isolates with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and experimental scrapie infected sheep.

    Thierry G.M Baron;Jean-Yves Madec;Didier Calavas;Yves Richard

  • Atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathies, France, 2001-2007.

    Anne-Gaëlle Biacabe;Eric Morignat;Johann Vulin;Didier Calavas

  • Mycoplasmoses of ruminants in France: recent data from the national surveillance network

    Myriam Chazel;Florence Tardy;Dominique Le Grand;Didier Calavas

  • Why do farmers and veterinarians not report all bovine abortions, as requested by the clinical brucellosis surveillance system in France?

    Anne Bronner;Viviane Hénaux;Nicolas Fortané;Pascal Hendrikx

  • Spread rate of lumpy skin disease in the Balkans, 2015-2016.

    Alizé Mercier;Elena Arsevska;Laure Bournez;Anne-Christine Bronner

  • Similar Signature of the Prion Protein in Natural Sheep Scrapie and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy-Linked Diseases

    Thierry G. M. Baron;Jean-Yves Madec;Didier Calavas

  • Defining syndromes using cattle meat inspection data for syndromic surveillance purposes: a statistical approach with the 2005–2010 data from ten French slaughterhouses

    Céline Dupuy;Céline Dupuy;Eric Morignat;Xavier Maugey;Jean-Luc Vinard

  • Molecular analysis of the protease-resistant prion protein in scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy transmitted to ovine transgenic and wild-type mice.

    Thierry Baron;Carole Crozet;Anne-Gaëlle Biacabe;Sandrine Philippe

  • Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolated from cattle between 2002 and 2006 in France.

    Pierre Châtre;Marisa Haenni;Danièle Meunier;Marie-Anne Botrel

  • Inventory of veterinary syndromic surveillance initiatives in Europe (Triple-S project): Current situation and perspectives

    Céline Dupuy;Anne Bronner;Eamon Watson;Linda Wuyckhuise-Sjouke

  • Preliminary estimate of Schmallenberg virus infection impact in sheep flocks - France.

    M. Dominguez;P. Hendrikx;S. Zientara;D. Calavas

  • Serological prevalence of Mycoplasma bovis infection in suckling beef cattle in France.

    D. Le Grand;P. Bézille;D. Calavas;F. Poumarat

  • Estimating front-wave velocity of infectious diseases: A simple, efficient method applied to bluetongue

    Maryline Pioz;Hélène Guis;Didier Calavas;Benoît Durand

  • Why did bluetongue spread the way it did? Environmental factors influencing the velocity of bluetongue virus serotype 8 epizootic wave in France.

    Maryline Pioz;Hélène Guis;Laurent Crespin;Laurent Crespin

  • Assessment of the impact of the 2003 and 2006 heat waves on cattle mortality in France.

    Eric Morignat;Jean-Baptiste Perrin;Jean-Luc Vinard

  • Assessment of the utility of routinely collected cattle census and disposal data for syndromic surveillance.

    Jean-Baptiste Perrin;Jean-Baptiste Perrin;Christian Ducrot;Jean-Luc Vinard;Eric Morignat

  • A Case-Control Study on the Origin of Atypical Scrapie in Sheep, France

    Alexandre Fediaevsky;Eric Morignat;Christian Ducrot;Didier Calavas

  • Poultry, pig and the risk of BSE following the feed ban in France – A spatial analysis

    David Abrial;Didier Calavas;Nathalie Jarrige;Christian Ducrot

  • Targeted surveillance to assess the prevalence of BSE in high-risk populations in western France and the associated risk factors

    E. Morignat;T. Baron;J-L. Vinard;A-G. Biacabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Benoit Durand
Benoit Durand French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety
Stéphan Zientara
Stéphan Zientara Université Paris Cité
Bernard Faye
Bernard Faye Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Renaud Lancelot
Renaud Lancelot INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Marisa Haenni
Marisa Haenni University of Lyon System
Dirk U. Pfeiffer
Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong
Nicolas Rose
Nicolas Rose French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety
Tim E. Carpenter
Tim E. Carpenter University of California, Davis
Yrjö T. Gröhn
Yrjö T. Gröhn Cornell University

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