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71
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15734
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1873
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793

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2014 - European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Excellence Award

Overview

Ilaria Capua is a researcher affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on various subfields including Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Modeling and Simulation, Agronomy and Crop Science, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's research topics cover multiple areas related to disease and public health. These include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, zoonotic diseases and public health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, animal disease management and epidemiology, animal virus infections studies, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and global public health policies and epidemiology.

Among the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ilaria Capua are:

  • Toward Nanotechnology-Enabled Approaches against the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, ACS Nano)
  • Is COVID-19 the first pandemic that evolves into a panzootic? (2020, PubMed)
  • Natural language processing and network analysis provide novel insights on policy and scientific discourse around Sustainable Development Goals (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Age-sex population adjusted analysis of disease severity in epidemics as a tool to devise public health policies for COVID-19 (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Association Between Sex Hormone Levels and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With COVID-19 Admitted to Hospital: An Observational, Retrospective, Cohort Study (2022, Frontiers in Immunology)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Ilaria Capua include Angela Fanelli, Costanza Manes, Luca Mantegazza, Carla Mavian, and Alessio Lorusso.

Publications are frequently found in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • The Lancet
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ACS Nano

In terms of recognition, Ilaria Capua was awarded membership in the Academia Europaea in 2020 and received the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Excellence Award in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Toward Nanotechnology-Enabled Approaches against the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Carsten Weiss;Marie Carriere;Laura Fusco;Laura Fusco;Ilaria Capua

  • Avian influenza: recent developments.

    Ilaria Capua;Dennis J Alexander

  • Newcastle disease outbreaks in recent years in Western Europe were caused by an old (VI) and a novel genotype (VII)

    B. Lomniczi;E. Wehmann;J. Herczeg;A. Ballagi-Pordany

  • Changes in the haemagglutinin and the neuraminidase genes prior to the emergence of highly pathogenic H7N1 avian influenza viruses in Italy.

    J Banks;E S Speidel;E Moore;L Plowright

  • Replication and Transmission of H9N2 Influenza Viruses in Ferrets: Evaluation of Pandemic Potential

    Hongquan Wan;Erin M. Sorrell;Haichen Song;Jaber Hossain

  • The avian influenza epidemic in Italy, 1999—2000: A review

    Ilaria Capua;Stefano Marangon

  • Development of a DIVA (Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals) strategy using a vaccine containing a heterologous neuraminidase for the control of avian influenza.

    Ilaria Capua;Calogero Terregino;Giovanni Cattoli;Franco Mutinelli

  • Control of Avian Influenza in Poultry

    Ilaria Capua;Stefano Marangon

  • Genome Analysis Linking Recent European and African Influenza (H5N1) Viruses

    Steven L. Salzberg;Carl Kingsford;Giovanni Cattoli;David J. Spiro

  • Serological Analysis of Serum Samples from Humans Exposed to Avian H7 Influenza Viruses in Italy between 1999 and 2003

    Simona Puzelli;Livia Di Trani;Concetta Fabiani;Laura Campitelli

  • Avian influenza and human health.

    Ilaria Capua;Dennis J Alexander

  • The challenge of avian influenza to the veterinary community.

    Ilaria Capua;Dennis J. Alexander

  • H7N1 avian influenza in Italy (1999 to 2000) in intensively reared chickens and turkeys

    Ilaria Capua;Franco Mutinelli;Stefano Marangon;Dennis J. Alexander

  • Phylogeography and evolutionary history of reassortant H9N2 viruses with potential human health implications

    Alice Fusaro;Isabella Monne;Annalisa Salviato;Viviana Valastro

  • Inactivation of avian influenza viruses by chemical agents and physical conditions: a review.

    P. De Benedictis;M. S. Beato;I. Capua

  • A global initiative on sharing avian flu data

    Peter Bogner;Ilaria Capua;David J. Lipman;Nancy J. Cox

  • Comparison of three rapid detection systems for type A influenza virus on tracheal swabs of experimentally and naturally infected birds.

    G. Cattoli;A. Drago;S. Maniero;A. Toffan

  • Pathogenicity of a QX strain of infectious bronchitis virus in specific pathogen free and commercial broiler chickens, and evaluation of protection induced by a vaccination programme based on the Ma5 and 4/91 serotypes.

    Calogero Terregino;Anna Toffan;Maria Serena Beato;Roberta De Nardi

  • Evidence for differing evolutionary dynamics of A/H5N1 viruses among countries applying or not applying avian influenza vaccination in poultry

    Giovanni Cattoli;Alice Fusaro;Isabella Monne;Fethiye Coven

  • Development and Validation of a One-Step Real-Time PCR Assay for Simultaneous Detection of Subtype H5, H7, and H9 Avian Influenza Viruses

    Isabella Monne;Silvia Ormelli;Annalisa Salviato;Cristian De Battisti

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Cattoli
Giovanni Cattoli International Atomic Energy Agency
Stefano Marangon
Stefano Marangon Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
Dennis J. Alexander
Dennis J. Alexander Animal and Plant Health Agency
Edward C. Holmes
Edward C. Holmes University of Sydney
Ian H. Brown
Ian H. Brown Animal and Plant Health Agency
David E. Swayne
David E. Swayne United States Department of Agriculture
Lorenzo Piemonti
Lorenzo Piemonti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Ron A. M. Fouchier
Ron A. M. Fouchier Erasmus University Rotterdam
Marion Koopmans
Marion Koopmans Erasmus University Rotterdam
Barbara Wieland
Barbara Wieland Institute of Virology and Immunology

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