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Filipe Dantas-Torres

Filipe Dantas-Torres

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Animal Science and Veterinary
Brazil
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
76
Citations
22658
World Ranking
101
National Ranking
2

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
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Filipe Dantas-Torres is affiliated with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their research work spans various subfields, notably parasitology, infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's core research interests focus on vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, and studies on leishmaniasis. Other significant topics include vector-borne animal diseases, research on Trypanosoma species, mosquito-borne diseases and control, and zoonotic diseases with implications for public health.

Dantas-Torres has published multiple papers across several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Acta Tropica
  • Trends in Parasitology
  • Pathogens
  • Parasitology Research

Some recent publications highlight the breadth of their research efforts:

  • Overview on Dirofilaria immitis in the Americas, with notes on other filarial worms infecting dogs, 2020, Veterinary Parasitology
  • Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Gateway to Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, 2021, Trends in Parasitology
  • Ticks and associated pathogens in camels (Camelus dromedarius) from Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • Comparison of Diagnostic Tools for the Detection of Dirofilaria immitis Infection in Dogs, 2020, Pathogens
  • Didelphis spp. opossums and their parasites in the Americas: A One Health perspective, 2021, Parasitology Research

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of their career, working frequently with co-authors such as Domenico Otranto, Kamila Gaudêncio da Silva Sales, Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan, Lucas Christian de Sousa-Paula, and Marcos Antônio Bezerra-Santos.

Best Publications

  • Ticks and tick-borne diseases: a One Health perspective.

    Filipe Dantas-Torres;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Bruno B. Chomel;Domenico Otranto

  • Biology and ecology of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus

    Filipe Dantas-Torres

  • The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) (Acari: Ixodidae): from taxonomy to control.

    Filipe Dantas-Torres

  • On a Cercopithifilaria sp. transmitted by Rhipicephalus sanguineus: a neglected, but widespread filarioid of dogs

    Domenico Otranto;Emanuele Brianti;Maria Stefania Latrofa;Giada Annoscia

  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

    Filipe Dantas-Torres

  • The role of dogs as reservoirs of Leishmania parasites, with emphasis on Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum and Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis

    Filipe Dantas-Torres

  • Vector-borne helminths of dogs and humans in Europe.

    Domenico Otranto;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Emanuele Brianti;Donato Traversa

  • Climate change, biodiversity, ticks and tick-borne diseases: The butterfly effect.

    Filipe Dantas-Torres

  • Morphological and genetic diversity of Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato from the New and Old Worlds

    Filipe Dantas-Torres;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Maria Stefania Latrofa;Giada Annoscia;Alessio Giannelli

  • Vector-borne parasitic zoonoses: emerging scenarios and new perspectives.

    Douglas D. Colwell;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Domenico Otranto

  • Managing canine vector-borne diseases of zoonotic concern: part two

    Domenico Otranto;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Edward B. Breitschwerdt

  • Visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil: revisiting paradigms of epidemiology and control

    Filipe Dantas-Torres;Sinval Pinto Brandão-Filho

  • Canine leishmaniosis in the Old and New Worlds: unveiled similarities and differences

    Filipe Dantas-Torres;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Laia Solano-Gallego;Gad Baneth;Vitor Marcio Ribeiro

  • Canine vector-borne diseases in Brazil.

    Filipe Dantas-Torres

  • The prevention of canine leishmaniasis and its impact on public health

    Domenico Otranto;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Filipe Dantas-Torres

  • Systematics and ecology of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus

    Jeremy Gray;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Agustín Estrada-Peña;Michael Levin

  • Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae), the brown dog tick, parasitizing humans in Brazil.

    Filipe Dantas-Torres;Luciana Aguiar Figueredo;Sinval Pinto Brandão-Filho

  • Dogs, cats, parasites, and humans in Brazil: opening the black box.

    Filipe Dantas-Torres;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Domenico Otranto

  • Canine leishmaniosis in South America

    Filipe Dantas-Torres

  • Canine and feline vector-borne diseases in Italy: current situation and perspectives

    Domenico Otranto;Filipe Dantas-Torres

Frequent Co-Authors

Domenico Otranto
Domenico Otranto University of Bari Aldo Moro
Maria Stefania Latrofa
Maria Stefania Latrofa University of Bari Aldo Moro
Emanuele Brianti
Emanuele Brianti University of Messina
Alessio Giannelli
Alessio Giannelli University of Bari Aldo Moro
Riccardo Paolo Lia
Riccardo Paolo Lia University of Bari Aldo Moro
Gioia Capelli
Gioia Capelli Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
Giada Annoscia
Giada Annoscia University of Bari Aldo Moro
Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos
Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos Federal Rural University of Pernambuco
Gad Baneth
Gad Baneth Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Cinzia Cantacessi
Cinzia Cantacessi University of Cambridge

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