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Overview

Gianluca D'Amico is affiliated with the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca in Romania. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with a strong emphasis on parasitology and infectious diseases research.

The scientist's work spans various subfields, including:

  • Parasitology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Small Animals
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Major topics addressed in their publications cover:

  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Helminth infection and control
  • Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment

Gianluca D'Amico has contributed to a number of research articles, including the following recent papers:

  • "Modelling the potential spread of Hyalomma marginatum ticks in Europe by migratory birds" (2020), published in International Journal for Parasitology
  • "Multiple Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ixodes ricinus Ticks Collected from Humans in Romania" (2020), published in Pathogens
  • "Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front" (2024), published in Biological Conservation
  • "Intestinal parasites of buffalo calves from Romania: molecular characterisation of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis, and the first report of Eimeria bareillyi" (2022), published in Folia Parasitologica
  • "First case report of dermatitis associated with Leporacarus gibbus in cat" (2021), published in BMC Veterinary Research

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Pathogens
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Animals

Frequent collaborators in Gianluca D'Amico's research include:

  • Angela Monica Ionică
  • Mirabela Oana Dumitrache
  • Viorica Mircean
  • Adriana Györke
  • Giorgio Buttazzo

Best Publications

  • Ixodid ticks in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from Romania

    MO Dumitrache;G D'Amico;IA Matei;A Ionică

  • Current surveys on the prevalence and distribution of Dirofilaria spp. and Acanthocheilonema reconditum infections in dogs in Romania.

    Angela Monica Ionică;Ioana Adriana Matei;Viorica Mircean;Mirabela Oana Dumitrache

  • Out-of-Africa, human-mediated dispersal of the common cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis: The hitchhiker's guide to world domination.

    Andrea L. Lawrence;Cameron E. Webb;Nicholas J. Clark;Ali Halajian

  • Zoonotic pathogens associated with Hyalomma aegyptium in endangered tortoises: evidence for host-switching behaviour in ticks?

    Anamaria I Paștiu;Ioana A Matei;Andrei D Mihalca;Gianluca D’Amico

  • Tick parasites of rodents in Romania: host preferences, community structure and geographical distribution

    Andrei D Mihalca;Mirabela O Dumitrache;Attila D Sándor;Cristian Magdaş

  • Further spreading of canine oriental eyeworm in Europe: first report of Thelazia callipaeda in Romania

    Andrei Daniel Mihalca;Gianluca D’Amico;Iuliu Scurtu;Ramona Chirilă

  • Filarioid infections in wild carnivores: a multispecies survey in Romania

    Angela Monica Ionică;Ioana Adriana Matei;Gianluca D’Amico;Jana Ababii

  • A comparative test of ixodid tick identification by a network of European researchers.

    Agustin Estrada-Pena;Gianluca d'Amico;Ana Maria Palomar;Marlène Dupraz

  • East and west separation of Rhipicephalus sanguineus mitochondrial lineages in the Mediterranean Basin

    Sándor Hornok;Attila D. Sándor;Snežana Tomanović;Relja Beck

  • Eurasian golden jackal as host of canine vector-borne protists

    Barbora Mitková;Kristýna Hrazdilová;Gianluca D’Amico;Georg Gerhard Duscher

  • Modelling the potential spread of Hyalomma marginatum ticks in Europe by migratory birds.

    Agustín Estrada-Peña;Gianluca D'Amico;Natalia Fernández-Ruiz

  • A tsetse and tabanid fly survey of African great apes habitats reveals the presence of a novel trypanosome lineage but the absence of Trypanosoma brucei

    Jan Votýpka;Jana Rádrová;Tomáš Skalický;Milan Jirků

  • Molecular detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from Romania

    Mirabela Oana Dumitrache;Ioana Adriana Matei;Angela Monica Ionică;Zsuzsa Kalmár

  • Cytauxzoon Infections in Wild Felids from Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic Space: Further Evidence for a Different Cytauxzoon Species in European Felids.

    Martina Gallusová;Dagmar Jirsová;Andrei D. Mihalca;Călin Mircea Gherman

  • Thelazia callipaeda in wild carnivores from Romania: new host and geographical records

    Andrei Daniel Mihalca;Angela Monica Ionică;Gianluca D’Amico;Aikaterini Alexandra Daskalaki

  • Do the Ticks of Birds at an Important Migratory Hotspot Reflect the Seasonal Dynamics of Ixodes ricinus at the Migration Initiation Site? A Case Study in the Danube Delta

    Attila D. Sándor;Daniel I. Mărcuţan;Gianluca D'Amico;Călin M. Gherman

  • Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens show circadian co-periodicity in naturally co-infected dogs.

    Angela Monica Ionică;Ioana Adriana Matei;Gianluca D’Amico;Lucia Victoria Bel

  • Role of golden jackals (Canis aureus) as natural reservoirs of Dirofilaria spp. in Romania.

    Angela Monica Ionică;Ioana Adriana Matei;Gianluca D’Amico;Aikaterini Alexandra Daskalaki

  • The risk of exposure to rickettsial infections and human granulocytic anaplasmosis associated with Ixodes ricinus tick bites in humans in Romania: A multiannual study.

    Ioana Adriana Matei;Zsuzsa Kalmár;Mihaela Lupşe;Gianluca D’Amico

  • Transstadial Transmission of Borrelia turcica in Hyalomma aegyptium Ticks

    Zsuzsa Kalmár;Vasile Cozma;Hein Sprong;Setareh Jahfari

  • Molecular detection of Anaplasma platys infection in free-roaming dogs and ticks from Kenya and Ivory Coast

    Ioana Adriana Matei;Gianluca D’Amico;Patrick K. Yao;Angela Monica Ionică

  • Autochthonous Hepatozoon infection in hunting dogs and foxes from the Czech Republic

    Barbora Mitková;Kristýna Hrazdilová;Vladimír Steinbauer;Gianluca D’Amico

  • Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks of migratory birds in Romania

    Ioan-Daniel Mărcuţan;Zsuzsa Kalmár;Angela Monica Ionică;Gianluca D’Amico

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei Daniel Mihalca
Andrei Daniel Mihalca University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Călin Mircea Gherman
Călin Mircea Gherman University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
David Modrý
David Modrý University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Attila D. Sándor
Attila D. Sándor University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Vasile Cozma
Vasile Cozma University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
Domenico Otranto
Domenico Otranto University of Bari Aldo Moro
Jan Votýpka
Jan Votýpka Charles University
Agustín Estrada-Peña
Agustín Estrada-Peña University of Zaragoza
Nikola Pantchev
Nikola Pantchev IDEXX Laboratories (United States)
Klára J. Petrželková
Klára J. Petrželková Czech Academy of Sciences

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