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Gábor Földvári is affiliated with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria and focuses research primarily within the fields of Medicine, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Immunology and Microbiology.

Their work engages several subfields, including Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Insect Science. The main topics addressed throughout their career encompass vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, vector-borne animal diseases, insect and pesticide research, zoonotic diseases and public health, Yersinia bacterium and ectoparasites research, and viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gábor Földvári include Pavel Široký, Mária Kazimírová, Péter Apari, Dorota Kiewra, and Andrei Daniel Mihalca.

The scientist has published in a variety of academic journals, with multiple publications appearing in Evolutionary Applications, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, International Journal for Parasitology, Infection Genetics and Evolution, and Emerging Infectious Diseases. These venues reflect a concentration on parasitology and infectious disease research.

Selected recent papers are:

  • Emergence of Hyalomma marginatum and Hyalomma rufipes adults revealed by citizen science tick monitoring in Hungary (2022), Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Dermacentor reticulatus - a tick on its way from glacial refugia to a panmictic Eurasian population (2022), International Journal for Parasitology
  • Genome characterization, prevalence and tissue distribution of astrovirus, hepevirus and norovirus among wild and laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus) and mice (Mus musculus) in Hungary (2021), Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • High Prevalence and Low Diversity of Rickettsia in Dermacentor reticulatus Ticks, Central Europe (2022), Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • New challenges posed by ticks and tick-borne diseases (2022), Biologia

Best Publications

  • Ixodes ricinus and Its Transmitted Pathogens in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas in Europe: New Hazards and Relevance for Public Health

    Annapaola Rizzoli;Cornelia Silaghi;Cornelia Silaghi;Anna Obiegala;Anna Obiegala;Ivo Rudolf

  • Circulation of four Anaplasma phagocytophilum ecotypes in Europe

    Setareh Jahfari;E Claudia Coipan;Manoj Fonville;Arieke Docters van Leeuwen

  • Dermacentor reticulatus : a vector on the rise

    Gábor Földvári;Pavel Široký;Sándor Szekeres;Gábor Majoros

  • Babesia canis canis in dogs from Hungary: detection by PCR and sequencing

    Gábor Földvári;Éva Hell;Róbert Farkas

  • Ixodid tick species attaching to dogs in Hungary.

    Gábor Földvári;Róbert Farkas

  • Larvae of Ixodes ricinus transmit Borrelia afzelii and B. miyamotoi to vertebrate hosts

    Gilian van Duijvendijk;Claudia Coipan;Alex Wagemakers;Manoj Fonville

  • Molecular identification of Anaplasma marginale and rickettsial endosymbionts in blood-sucking flies (Diptera: Tabanidae, Muscidae) and hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

    Sándor Hornok;Gábor Földvári;Vilmos Elek;Victoria Naranjo

  • First serological and molecular evidence on the endemicity of Anaplasma ovis and A. marginale in Hungary

    Sándor Hornok;Vilmos Elek;José de la Fuente;José de la Fuente;Victoria Naranjo

  • Ticks and the city: ectoparasites of the Northern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus) in an urban park.

    Gábor Földvári;Krisztina Rigó;Mónika Jablonszky;Nóra Biró

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum evolves in geographical and biotic niches of vertebrates and ticks.

    Ryanne I Jaarsma;Hein Sprong;Katsuhisa Takumi;Maria Kazimirova

  • Investigation of the ecology of Francisella tularensis during an inter-epizootic period.

    Miklós Gyuranecz;Krisztina Rigó;Ádám Dán;Gábor Földvári

  • Borrelia spielmanii erythema migrans, Hungary.

    Gábor Földvári;Róbert Farkas;András Lakos

  • Contributions to the phylogeny of Ixodes (Pholeoixodes) canisuga, I. (Ph.) kaiseri, I. (Ph.) hexagonus and a simple pictorial key for the identification of their females

    Sándor Hornok;Attila D. Sándor;Relja Beck;Róbert Farkas

  • Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in urban hedgehogs.

    Gábor Földvári;Setareh Jahfari;Krisztina Rigó;Mónika Jablonszky

  • Vertical transmission of Bartonella schoenbuchensis in Lipoptena cervi

    Arnout de Bruin;Arieke Docters van Leeuwen;Setareh Jahfari;Willem Takken

  • DNA of piroplasms of ruminants and dogs in ixodid bat ticks

    Sándor Hornok;Krisztina Szőke;Dávid Kováts;Péter Estók

  • Hard Ticks Infesting Dogs in Hungary and their Infection with Babesia and Borrelia Species

    Gábor Földvári;M. Márialigeti;Norbert Solymosi;Norbert Solymosi;Z. Lukács

  • Synanthropic rodents and their ectoparasites as carriers of a novel haemoplasma and vector-borne, zoonotic pathogens indoors

    Sándor Hornok;Gábor Földvári;Krisztina Rigó;Marina L Meli

  • Eco-epidemiology of Borrelia miyamotoi and Lyme borreliosis spirochetes in a popular hunting and recreational forest area in Hungary

    Sándor Szekeres;Elena Claudia Coipan;Krisztina Rigó;Gábor Majoros

  • Host Phylogeny, Geographic Overlap, and Roost Sharing Shape Parasite Communities in European Bats

    Clifton D. McKee;Clifton D. McKee;Aleksandra I. Krawczyk;Attila D. Sándor;Tamás Görföl

  • Transmission of Rickettsia slovaca and Rickettsia raoultii by male Dermacentor marginatus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks to humans

    Gábor Földvári;Krisztina Rigó;András Lakos

Frequent Co-Authors

Róbert Farkas
Róbert Farkas University of Veterinary Medicine
Hein Sprong
Hein Sprong Wageningen University & Research
Sándor Hornok
Sándor Hornok University of Veterinary Medicine
Attila D. Sándor
Attila D. Sándor University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Cornelia Silaghi
Cornelia Silaghi Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Willem Takken
Willem Takken Wageningen University & Research
Manoj Fonville
Manoj Fonville National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Eric Delwart
Eric Delwart University of California, San Francisco
José de la Fuente
José de la Fuente University of Castilla-La Mancha
Jan Votýpka
Jan Votýpka Charles University

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