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Animal Science and Veterinary
Brazil
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
51
Citations
9643
World Ranking
572
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Fernando Ferreira is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Agronomy and Crop Science, Epidemiology, Small Animals, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist has contributed to several main topics of research, including:

  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
  • Rabies epidemiology and control
  • Leptospirosis research and findings
  • Burkholderia infections and melioidosis
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Some of Fernando Ferreira's recent papers include:

  • Accuracy of serological tests for bovine brucellosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, published in Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • Risk factors associated with mammary tumors in female dogs, 2020, Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira
  • Spatial Distribution of Bat Shelters and Livestock Rabies in Southern Brazil, 2021, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
  • Digestive diseases of cattle diagnosed at the "Clínica de Bovinos de Garanhuns"-UFRPE: retrospective study and influence of seasonality, 2021, Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira
  • Prevalence of bat viruses associated with land-use change in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil, 2022, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Frequent collaborators in their research include José Soares Ferreira Neto, Ricardo Augusto Dias, Marcos Amaku, José Henrique Hildebrand Grisi-Filho, and Marcos Bryan Heinemann.

Fernando Ferreira has published multiple articles in journals such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Tropical Animal Health and Production, Semina Ciências Agrárias, Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, and Preventive Veterinary Medicine.

In addition to journal articles, they have authored a book titled Direito, Justiça e Sociedade, published by Dialética eBooks, scheduled for release in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Type-A Arabidopsis response regulators are partially redundant negative regulators of cytokinin signaling.

    Jennifer P.C. To;Georg Haberer;Fernando J. Ferreira;Jean Deruère

  • Rickettsial Infection in Animals and Brazilian Spotted Fever Endemicity

    Luis Antônio Sangioni;Maurício Claudio Horta;Manoella Campostrini Barreto Vianna;Solange Maria Gennari

  • Two-component elements mediate interactions between cytokinin and salicylic acid in plant immunity.

    Cristiana T. Argueso;Fernando J. Ferreira;Petra Epple;Petra Epple;Jennifer P. C. To

  • Seasonal dynamics of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on horses in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

    Marcelo Bahia Labruna;Nobuko Kasai;Fernando Ferreira;João L.H. Faccini

  • Risk factors to tick infestations and their occurrence on horses in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

    Marcelo B Labruna;Cláudia E Kerber;Fernando Ferreira;João Luiz H Faccini

  • Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from the state of Rondônia, western Amazon, Brazil

    Marcelo B. Labruna;Luis Marcelo A. Camargo;Flavio A. Terrassini;Fernando Ferreira

  • Sorovares de leptospiras predominantes em exames sorológicos de bubalinos, ovinos, caprinos, eqüinos, suínos e cães de diversos estados brasileiros

    Andrea Cecília Mercaldi Favero;Sônia Regina Pinheiro;Silvio Arruda Vasconcellos;Zenáide Maria Morais

  • Parâmetros fisiológicos de bovinos cruzados submetidos ao estresse calórico

    F. Ferreira;M.F.A. Pires;M.L. Martinez;S.G. Coelho

  • Vaccinia virus in Feces and Urine of Wild Rodents from São Paulo State, Brazil.

    Marina Gea Peres;Thais Silva Bacchiega;Camila Michele Appolinário;Acácia Ferreira Vicente

  • Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in captive neotropical felids from Brazil.

    Jean Carlos Ramos Silva;Saemi Ogassawara;Cristina Harumi Adania;Fernando Ferreira

  • Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Infesting Birds in an Atlantic Rain Forest Region of Brazil

    Maria Ogrzewalska;Richard de Campos Pacheco;Alexandre Uezu;Leonardo José Richtzenhain

  • The connection between animal abuse and interpersonal violence: A review from the veterinary perspective.

    Stefany Monsalve;Fernando Ferreira;Rita Garcia

  • Canine infection by rickettsiae and ehrlichiae in southern Brazil

    Taís B. Saito;Nilton A. Cunha-Filho;Richard C. Pacheco;Fernando Ferreira

  • Canine-Based Strategies for Prevention and Control of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil.

    Anaiá P. Sevá;Fredy G. Ovallos;Marcus Amaku;Eugenia Carrillo

  • Rickettsial infection in Amblyomma nodosum ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from Brazil

    Maria Ogrzewalska;Richard de Campos Pacheco;Alexandre Uezu;Leonardo José Richtzenhain

  • Leptospirose bovina - Variantes sorológicas predominantes em colheitas efetuadas no período de 1984 a 1997 em rebanhos de 21 estados do Brasil

    M. Favero;Sonia Regina Pinheiro;Silvio Arruda Vasconcellos;Z. M. Morais

  • Larval Behavioral Diapause Regulates Life Cycle of Amblyomma cajennense (Acari: Ixodidae) in Southeast Brazil

    Marcelo B. Labruna;Marcos Amaku;João Augusto Metzner;Adriano Pinter

  • Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Infesting Wild Birds in an Atlantic Forest Area in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, with Isolation of Rickettsia from the Tick Amblyomma longirostre

    Maria Ogrzewalska;Richard de Campos Pacheco;Alexandre Uezu;Fernando Ferreira

  • Epidemiologia da Leptospirose em animais silvestres na Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo

    Sandra Helena Ramiro Corrêa;Silvio Arruda Vasconcellos;Zenaide Maria de Morais;Antoninho de Assis Teixeira

  • The use of different doses of metamizol for post‐operative analgesia in dogs

    Vivianne Higuchi Imagawa;Denise Tabacchi Fantoni;Angélica Cecília Tatarunas;Sandra Mastrocinque

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado de Mato Grosso

    Rísia Lopes Negreiros;Ricardo Augusto Dias;Fernando Ferreira;José Soares Ferreira Neto

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado de Minas Gerais

    V. S. P Gonçalves;M. K. V. C Delphino;R. A Dias;F Ferreira

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado do Mato Grosso do Sul

    S.C. Chate;R.A. Dias;M. Amaku;F. Ferreira

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado de São Paulo

    Ricardo Augusto Dias;Vitor Salvador Picão Gonçalves;Vera Cecília Ferreira de Figueiredo;José Ricardo Lôbo

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

    M.F.V. Marvulo;F. Ferreira;R.A. Dias;M. Amaku

  • Epidemiologic study of bovine and human leptospirosis in eastern Brazilian Amazon

    Homem Vs;Heinemann Mb;Moraes Zm;Vasconcellos Sa

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado de Santa Catarina

    S. Sikusawa;M. Amaku;R.A. Dias;J.S. Ferreira Neto

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado do Tocantins

    R. A Ogata;V. S. P Gonçalves;V. C. F Figueiredo;J. R Lôbo

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado do Rio de Janeiro

    M.F.C. Klein-Gunnewiek;M. Amaku;R.A. Dias;F. Ferreira

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Estado do Espírito Santo

    S. S Azevedo;J. S Ferreira Neto;R. A Dias;F Ferreira

  • Situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina no Distrito Federal

    V. S. P Gonçalves;L. A Ribeiro;R. A Caldas;P. F. C Francisco

  • Epidemiological situation of bovine brucellosis in the State of Bahia, Brazil

    A.J.S. Alves;V.S.P. Gonçalves;V.C.F. Figueiredo;J.R. Lôbo

  • Soroprevalência da anemia infecciosa eqüina, da arterite viral dos eqüinos e do aborto viral eqüino no município de Uruará, PA, Brasil

    Marcos Bryan Heinemann;Adriana Cortez;Maria do Carmo Custodio de Souza;Tatiana Gotti

  • (Epidemiological situation of bovine brucellosis in the State of Rondônia, Brazil)

    K.S. Villar;M. Amaku;R.A. Dias;J.S. Ferreira Neto

  • Soroprevalência da encefalomielite eqüina do leste e do oeste no Município de Uruará, PA, Brasil

    Marcos Bryan Heinemann;Maria do Carmo C. Souza;Adriana Cortez;Fernando Ferreira

  • Dinâmica populacional canina no Município de Ibiúna-SP: estudo retrospectivo

    Francisco Rafael Martins Soto;Fernando Ferreira;Sônia Regina Pinheiro;Fernanda Nogari

  • Modelagem matemática do controle de brucelose bovina por vacinação (Mathematical modeling of bovine brucellosis control by vaccination)

    M. Amaku;Ferreira Neto;F. Ferreira;Orlando Marques de Paiva

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo Augusto Dias
Ricardo Augusto Dias Universidade de São Paulo
Silvio Arruda Vasconcellos
Silvio Arruda Vasconcellos Universidade de São Paulo
Marcelo B. Labruna
Marcelo B. Labruna Universidade de São Paulo
Alexander Welker Biondo
Alexander Welker Biondo Federal University of Paraná
Solange Maria Gennari
Solange Maria Gennari Universidade de São Paulo
Rodrigo Martins Soares
Rodrigo Martins Soares Universidade de São Paulo
Maria Ogrzewalska
Maria Ogrzewalska Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Mauricio Claudio Horta
Mauricio Claudio Horta Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco
Richard C. Pacheco
Richard C. Pacheco Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Helio Langoni
Helio Langoni Sao Paulo State University

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