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Ignacio García-Bocanegra

Ignacio García-Bocanegra

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
37
Citations
4624
World Ranking
1536
National Ranking
70

Overview

Ignacio García-Bocanegra is affiliated with the University of Córdoba in Spain and has a prolific publication record in fields related to medicine, immunology, microbiology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research focuses on infectious diseases, parasitology, hepatology, public health, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics including viral infections and vectors, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, animal disease management and epidemiology, hepatitis viruses studies and epidemiology, vector-borne animal diseases, parasitic infections and diagnostics, and vector-borne infectious diseases.

Recent publications include:

  • Stepping up from wildlife disease surveillance to integrated wildlife monitoring in Europe, 2021, Research in Veterinary Science
  • An epidemiological study in wild carnivores from Spanish Mediterranean ecosystems reveals association between Leishmania infantum, Babesia spp. and Hepatozoon spp. infection and new hosts for Hepatozoon martis, Hepatozoon canis and Sarcocystis spp., 2021, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Cattle farmers' perception of biosecurity measures and the main predictors of behaviour change: The first European-wide pilot study, 2020, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Occurrence and Genetic Diversity of Protist Parasites in Captive Non-Human Primates, Zookeepers, and Free-Living Sympatric Rats in the Córdoba Zoo Conservation Centre, Southern Spain, 2021, Animals
  • Red deer reveal spatial risks of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus infection, 2021, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Ignacio García-Bocanegra include:

  • David Cano-Terriza
  • Javier Caballero-Gómez
  • Débora Jiménez-Martín
  • Sabrina Castro-Scholten
  • Saúl Jiménez-Ruiz

The scientist often publishes in the following venues:

  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • Veterinary Microbiology
  • Zoonoses and Public Health
  • Research in Veterinary Science

Ignacio García-Bocanegra's main fields of study cover 221 publications in medicine, 93 in immunology and microbiology, and 85 in agricultural and biological sciences. The subfields with the highest focus include infectious diseases, parasitology, hepatology, public health and environmental health, and epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Seroprevalence and risk factors associated with Babesia caballi and Theileria equi infection in equids.

    Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Antonio Arenas-Montes;Esther Hernández;Łukasz Adaszek

  • West Nile Fever Outbreak in Horses and Humans, Spain, 2010

    Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Juan A. Jaén-Téllez;Sebastián Napp;Antonio Arenas-Montes

  • Familial Hepatitis E Outbreak Linked to Wild Boar Meat Consumption.

    Antonio Rivero-Juárez;Mario Frias;A. Martinez-Peinado;María Ángeles Risalde

  • Seropositivity and risk factors associated with Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild birds from Spain.

    Óscar Cabezón;Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Rafael Molina-López;Ignasi Marco

  • Biosecurity practices in Spanish pig herds: perceptions of farmers and veterinarians of the most important biosecurity measures.

    M Simon-Grifé;G E Martín-Valls;M J Vilar-Ares;I García-Bocanegra

  • Toxoplasma gondii in Ruminant Species (Cattle, Sheep, and Goats) from Southern Spain

    I. García-Bocanegra;O. Cabezón;E. Hernández;M. S. Martínez-Cruz

  • Seroprevalence and risk factors associated with Toxoplasma gondii in domestic pigs from Spain.

    Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Meritxell Simon-Grifé;Jitender P. Dubey;Jordi Casal

  • Role of wild ruminants in the epidemiology of bluetongue virus serotypes 1, 4 and 8 in Spain

    Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Antonio Arenas-Montes;Cristina Lorca-Oró;Joan Pujols

  • Stepping up from wildlife disease surveillance to integrated wildlife monitoring in Europe.

    Beatriz Cardoso;Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Pelayo Acevedo;Germán Cáceres

  • Prevalence and risk factors of Campylobacter infection in broiler flocks from southern Spain

    Alicia Torralbo;Carmen Borge;Alberto Allepuz;Ignacio García-Bocanegra

  • Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in equids from Southern Spain.

    I. García-Bocanegra;O. Cabezón;A. Arenas-Montes;A. Carbonero

  • Factors affecting seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in the endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)

    I. García-Bocanegra;J.P. Dubey;F. Martínez;A. Vargas

  • Seroprevalence and risk factors of swine influenza in Spain

    M. Simon-Grifé;G.E. Martín-Valls;M.J. Vilar;I. García-Bocanegra

  • Serologic Assessment of Possibility for MERS-CoV Infection in Equids

    Benjamin Meyer;Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Ulrich Wernery;Renate Wernery

  • Monitoring bluetongue disease (BTV-1) epidemic in southern Spain during 2007.

    A. Allepuz;I. García-Bocanegra;S. Napp;J. Casal

  • Blood sampling by puncture in the cavernous sinus from hunted wild boar

    Antonio Arenas-Montes;Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Jorge Paniagua;Juan José Franco

  • An epidemiological study in wild carnivores from Spanish Mediterranean ecosystems reveals association between Leishmania infantum, Babesia spp. and Hepatozoon spp. infection and new hosts for Hepatozoon martis, Hepatozoon canis and Sarcocystis spp.

    María Ortuño;Yaarit Nachum-Biala;Ignacio García-Bocanegra;María Resa

  • Spatio-temporal trends and risk factors affecting West Nile virus and related flavivirus exposure in Spanish wild ruminants

    Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Jorge Paniagua;Ana V. Gutiérrez-Guzmán;Sylvie Lecollinet

  • First outbreak of myxomatosis in Iberian hares (Lepus granatensis).

    Ignacio García‐Bocanegra;Leonor Camacho‐Sillero;Maria A. Risalde;Kevin P. Dalton

  • Toxoplasma gondii in sympatric domestic and wild ungulates in the Mediterranean ecosystem.

    S. Almería;O. Cabezón;J. Paniagua;D. Cano-Terriza

  • Seroprevalence and Risk Factors Associated to Mycobacterium bovis in Wild Artiodactyl Species from Southern Spain, 2006–2010

    Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Bernat Pérez de Val;Antonio Arenas-Montes;Jorge Paniagua

  • Epidemiological survey of zoonotic pathogens in feral pigeons (Columba livia var. domestica) and sympatric zoo species in Southern Spain.

    David Cano-Terriza;Rafael Guerra;Sylvie Lecollinet;Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar

  • Serosurvey of West Nile virus and other flaviviruses of the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex in birds from Andalusia, southern Spain.

    Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Núria Busquets;Sebastián Napp;Ana Alba

  • Circulation of a Meaban-Like Virus in Yellow-Legged Gulls and Seabird Ticks in the Western Mediterranean Basin

    Audrey Arnal;Elena Gómez-Díaz;Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar;Sylvie Lecollinet

  • Seroprevalence and risk factors associated with bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) infection in non-vaccinated dairy and dual purpose cattle herds in Ecuador.

    Luis Rodrigo Saa;Anselmo Perea;Ignacio García-Bocanegra;Antonio José Arenas

Frequent Co-Authors

Sonia Almería
Sonia Almería United States Food and Drug Administration
Oscar Cabezón
Oscar Cabezón Autonomous University of Barcelona
Jitender P. Dubey
Jitender P. Dubey Agricultural Research Service
Alberto Allepuz
Alberto Allepuz Autonomous University of Barcelona
Christian Gortázar
Christian Gortázar University of Castilla-La Mancha
Joaquín Vicente
Joaquín Vicente University of Castilla-La Mancha
Jordi Casal
Jordi Casal Autonomous University of Barcelona
Antonio Rivero
Antonio Rivero Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba
Pelayo Acevedo
Pelayo Acevedo University of Castilla-La Mancha
Santiago Lavín
Santiago Lavín Autonomous University of Barcelona

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