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Animal Science and Veterinary
Germany
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
71
Citations
16920
World Ranking
154
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Katrin Hartmann is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research output includes a broad range of studies concentrated primarily in the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Infectious Diseases, Genetics, Animal Science and Zoology, Epidemiology, and Virology.

Their work covers multiple main topics including:

  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Veterinary Oncology Research
  • Rabies epidemiology and control
  • Leptospirosis research and findings

Katrin Hartmann has published in various scientific venues, with notable frequent publication sources including:

  • Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe K Kleintiere / Heimtiere
  • Viruses
  • Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • PLoS ONE

Their recent papers demonstrate active engagement in veterinary infectious diseases and virology, with representative works as follows:

  • 2020 AAFP Feline Retrovirus Testing and Management Guidelines, 2020, Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery
  • 2022 AAFP/EveryCat Feline Infectious Peritonitis Diagnosis Guidelines, 2022, Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery
  • Prevalence of Neutralizing Antibodies to Canine Distemper Virus and Response to Vaccination in Client-Owned Adult Healthy Dogs, 2021, Viruses
  • Anthropogenic Infection of Cats during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Viruses
  • Calicivirus Infection in Cats, 2022, Viruses

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers in their field. Prominent co-authors include:

  • Michèle Bergmann
  • Regina Hofmann-Lehmann
  • Yury Zablotski
  • Uwe Truyen
  • Sandra Felten

Best Publications

  • 2010 ACVIM small animal consensus statement on leptospirosis: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention.

    Jane E Sykes;K. Hartmann;K. F. Lunn;G. E. Moore

  • Clinical Aspects of Feline Retroviruses: A Review

    Katrin Hartmann

  • Feline infectious peritonitis. ABCD guidelines on prevention and management

    Diane Addie;Sándor Belák;Corine Boucraut-Baralon;Herman Egberink

  • European consensus statement on leptospirosis in dogs and cats

    Simone Schuller;Thierry Francey;K Hartmann;M Hugonnard

  • 2008 American Association of Feline Practitioners' feline retrovirus management guidelines

    Julie Levy;Cynda Crawford;Katrin Hartmann;Regina Hofmann-Lehmann

  • Feline leukaemia. ABCD guidelines on prevention and management.

    Hans Lutz;Diane Addie;Sándor Belák;Corine Boucraut-Baralon

  • Feline infectious peritonitis.

    Katrin Hartmann

  • Comparison of Different Tests to Diagnose Feline Infectious Peritonitis

    Katrin Hartmann;Christina Binder;Johannes Hirschberger;Dana Cole

  • Feline Immunodeficiency ABCD Guidelines on Prevention and Management

    Margaret J. Hosie;Diane Addie;Sándor Belák;Corine Boucraut-Baralon

  • Feline herpesvirus infection. ABCD guidelines on prevention and management

    Etienne Thiry;Diane Addie;Sándor Belák;Corine Boucraut-Baralon

  • Factors associated with upper respiratory tract disease caused by feline herpesvirus, feline calicivirus, Chlamydophila felis and Bordetella bronchiseptica in cats: experience from 218 European catteries

    C. R. Helps;P. Lait;A. Damhuis;U. BjÖrnehammar

  • Clinical aspects of feline immunodeficiency and feline leukemia virus infection.

    Katrin Hartmann

  • 2013 AAFP Feline Vaccination Advisory Panel Report

    Margie A Scherk;Richard B Ford;Rosalind M Gaskell;Katrin Hartmann

  • 2020 AAFP Feline Retrovirus Testing and Management Guidelines

    Susan Little;Julie Levy;Katrin Hartmann;Regina Hofmann-Lehmann

  • Prevalence of feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukaemia virus among client-owned cats and risk factors for infection in Germany.

    Sabine E. Gleich;Stefan Krieger;Katrin Hartmann

  • Feline Panleukopenia ABCD Guidelines on Prevention and Management

    Uwe Truyen;Diane Addie;Sándor Belák;Corine Boucraut-Baralon

  • The 2006 American Association of Feline Practitioners Feline Vaccine Advisory Panel Report

    James R. Richards;Thomas H. Elston;Richard B. Ford;Rosalind M. Gaskell

  • Feline parvovirus infection and associated diseases.

    Bianca Stuetzer;Katrin Hartmann

  • Hematology and serum biochemistry of feline immunodeficiency virus-infected and feline leukemia virus-infected cats.

    S. Gleich;K. Hartmann

  • Feline immunodeficiency virus infection: an overview

    K. Hartmann

  • Use of two virustatica (AZT, PMEA) in the treatment of FIV and of FeLV seropositive cats with clinical symptoms.

    K. Hartmann;A. Donath;B. Beer;H.F. Egberink

  • Something old, something new: update of the 2009 and 2013 ABCD guidelines on prevention and management of feline infectious diseases

    Karin Möstl;Diane D Addie;Corine Boucraut-Baralon;Herman Egberink

  • Factors associated with upper respiratory tract disease caused by feline herpesvirus, feline calicivirus, Chlamydophila felis and Bordetella bronchiseptica in cats

    C R Helps;P Lait;A Damhuis;U Björnehammar

Frequent Co-Authors

Herman Egberink
Herman Egberink Utrecht University
Hans Lutz
Hans Lutz University of Zurich
Margaret J Hosie
Margaret J Hosie University of Glasgow
Etienne Thiry
Etienne Thiry University of Liège
Marian C. Horzinek
Marian C. Horzinek Utrecht University
Alan D Radford
Alan D Radford University of Liverpool
Regina Hofmann-Lehmann
Regina Hofmann-Lehmann University of Zurich
Julie K. Levy
Julie K. Levy University of Florida
Jan S. Suchodolski
Jan S. Suchodolski Texas A&M University
Michael R. Lappin
Michael R. Lappin Colorado State University

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