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Animal Science and Veterinary
Norway
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
53
Citations
12040
World Ranking
491
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Jacques Godfroid is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research focuses predominantly on zoonotic bacterial infections, with significant contributions to understanding the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of Brucella infections.

The main fields of study include Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Veterinary, and Medicine. Subfields reflect a focus on Small Animals, Food Science, Epidemiology, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Immunology. The core topics covered in their work encompass:

  • Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
  • Animal Diversity and Health Studies
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Burkholderia infections and melioidosis
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases

Jacques Godfroid has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Scientific Reports
  • European Journal of Risk Regulation
  • Veterinary Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent research papers demonstrate the scope and diversity of their work, such as:

  • "If You're Not Confused, You're Not Paying Attention: Ochrobactrum Is Not Brucella" (2023), Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • "Brucellosis in wildlife in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2021), Scientific Reports
  • "The global epidemiology of Brucella infections in terrestrial wildlife: A meta-analysis" (2020), Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • "The Story behind COVID-19: Animal Diseases at the Crossroads of Wildlife, Livestock and Human Health" (2020), European Journal of Risk Regulation
  • "Identification and molecular characterization of Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis isolated from milk in cattle in Azerbaijan" (2022), BMC Veterinary Research

Jacques Godfroid regularly collaborates with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including Maryam Dadar, Andrey Pereira Lage, Elaine Maria Seles Dorneles, Henriëtte van Heerden, and Ruth Lindizyani Mfune. These collaborations have contributed to the multidisciplinary nature of their research.

Best Publications

  • CD8alpha+ and CD8alpha- subclasses of dendritic cells direct the development of distinct T helper cells in vivo.

    Roberto Maldonado-López;Thibaut De Smedt;Patrick Michel;Jacques Godfroid

  • From the discovery of the Malta fever's agent to the discovery of a marine mammal reservoir, brucellosis has continuously been a re-emerging zoonosis

    Jacques Godfroid;Axel Cloeckaert;Jean-Pierre Liautard;Stephan Kohler

  • Brucella ceti sp. nov. and Brucella pinnipedialis sp. nov. for Brucella strains with cetaceans and seals as their preferred hosts.

    Geoffrey Foster;Bjorn S. Osterman;Jacques Godfroid;Isabelle Jacques;Isabelle Jacques

  • Brucellosis at the animal/ecosystem/human interface at the beginning of the 21st century

    J. Godfroid;H. C. Scholz;T. Barbier;C. Nicolas

  • Diagnosis of Brucellosis in Livestock and Wildlife

    Jacques Godfroid;Klaus Nielsen;Claude Saegerman

  • Wildlife tuberculosis in South African conservation areas: implications and challenges.

    A.L. Michel;Roy G. Bengis;D.F. Keet;M. Hofmeyr

  • Brucellosis in wildlife

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  • Classification of Brucella spp. isolated from marine mammals by DNA polymorphism at the omp2 locus

    Axel Cloeckaert;Jean-Michel Verger;Maggy Grayon;Jean-Yves Paquet

  • A "One Health" surveillance and control of brucellosis in developing countries: moving away from improvisation.

    Jacques Godfroid;Sascha Al Dahouk;Sascha Al Dahouk;Georgios Pappas;Felix Roth

  • Brucellosis in the European Union and Norway at the turn of the twenty-first century.

    Jacques Godfroid;Annemarie Käsbohrer

  • A review of Brucella sp. infection of sea mammals with particular emphasis on isolates from Scotland.

    G Foster;A.P MacMillan;J Godfroid;F Howie

  • How to substantiate eradication of bovine brucellosis when aspecific serological reactions occur in the course of brucellosis testing.

    Jacques Godfroid;Claude Saegerman;Vincent Wellemans;Karl Walravens

  • Brucellosis in terrestrial wildlife.

    Jacques Godfroid;B. Garin-Bastuji;C. Saegerman;J.M. Blasco

  • Evaluation of the Epidemiological Relevance of Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Genotyping of Mycobacterium bovis and Comparison of the Method with IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis and Spoligotyping

    Caroline Allix;Karl Walravens;Claude Saegerman;Jacques Godfroid

  • A review of Brucella infection in marine mammals, with special emphasis on Brucella pinnipedialis in the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata)

    Ingebjørg H Nymo;Morten Tryland;Jacques Godfroid

  • Identification of the Perosamine Synthetase Gene of Brucella melitensis 16M and Involvement of Lipopolysaccharide O Side Chain in Brucella Survival in Mice and in Macrophages

    Fabrice Godfroid;Bernard Taminiau;Isabelle Danese;Philippe Denoel

  • MLVA-16 typing of 295 marine mammal Brucella isolates from different animal and geographic origins identifies 7 major groups within Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis

    Marianne Maquart;Philippe Le Flèche;Geoffrey Foster;Morten Tryland

  • Seroprevalence of brucellosis and its contribution to abortion in cattle, camel, and goat kept under pastoral management in Borana, Ethiopia

    Bekele Megersa;Bekele Megersa;Demelash Biffa;Demelash Biffa;Fufa Abunna;Alemayehu Regassa

  • Phenotypic and molecular characterization of a Brucella strain isolated from a minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)

    Chantal Clavareau;Vincent Wellemans;Karl Walravens;Morten Tryland

  • Brucellosis in livestock and wildlife: zoonotic diseases without pandemic potential in need of innovative one health approaches

    Jacques Godfroid

  • Prevalence of paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) in the Belgian cattle population.

    F. Boelaert;K. Walravens;P. Biront;J. P. Vermeersch

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Jacques Letesson
Jean-Jacques Letesson University of Namur
Morten Tryland
Morten Tryland University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Claude Saegerman
Claude Saegerman University of Liège
John Bwalya Muma
John Bwalya Muma University of Zambia
Eystein Skjerve
Eystein Skjerve Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Berit Djønne
Berit Djønne National Veterinary Institute
Sascha Al Dahouk
Sascha Al Dahouk Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Musso Munyeme
Musso Munyeme University of Zambia
Anita Luise Michel
Anita Luise Michel University of Pretoria
Dirk Berkvens
Dirk Berkvens Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

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