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Animal Science and Veterinary
Italy
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
67
Citations
17399
World Ranking
205
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Laura Rinaldi is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on parasitology within the fields of medicine and immunology and microbiology. The subfields covered include parasitology, small animals, ecology, infectious diseases, and animal science and zoology.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass helminth infection and control, parasites and host interactions, parasite biology and host interactions, parasitic infections and diagnostics, parasitic infections in humans and animals, congenital anomalies and fetal surgery, and parasitic diseases research and treatment.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Parasitology
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Veterinary Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Laura Rinaldi are:

  • Initial assessment of the economic burden of major parasitic helminth infections to the ruminant livestock industry in Europe, 2020, Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • The global progress of soil-transmitted helminthiases control in 2020 and World Health Organization targets for 2030, 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Increasing importance of anthelmintic resistance in European livestock: creation and meta-analysis of an open database, 2020, Parasite
  • Anthelmintic resistance in ruminants: challenges and solutions, 2022, Advances in Parasitology/Advances in parasitology
  • Combination Design of Time-Dependent Magnetic Field and Magnetic Nanocomposites to Guide Cell Behavior, 2020, Nanomaterials

Laura Rinaldi has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Giuseppe Cringoli
  • Antonio Bosco
  • Maria Paola Maurelli
  • Paola Pepe
  • Lavinia Ciucă

Best Publications

  • Global Distribution of Alveolar and Cystic Echinococcosis.

    P Deplazes;L Rinaldi;C A Alvarez Rojas;P R Torgerson

  • FLOTAC: new multivalent techniques for qualitative and quantitative copromicroscopic diagnosis of parasites in animals and humans.

    Giuseppe Cringoli;Laura Rinaldi;Maria Paola Maurelli;Jürg Utzinger

  • Climate and Dirofilaria infection in Europe.

    Claudio Genchi;Laura Rinaldi;Michele Mortarino;Marco Genchi

  • Initial assessment of the economic burden of major parasitic helminth infections to the ruminant livestock industry in Europe

    J Charlier;L Rinaldi;V Musella;H.W Ploeger

  • The Mini-FLOTAC technique for the diagnosis of helminth and protozoan infections in humans and animals.

    Giuseppe Cringoli;Maria P Maurelli;Bruno Levecke;Antonio Bosco

  • Comparing Diagnostic Accuracy of Kato-Katz, Koga Agar Plate, Ether-Concentration, and FLOTAC for Schistosoma mansoni and Soil-Transmitted Helminths

    Dominik Glinz;Kigbafori D. Silué;Stefanie Knopp;Stefanie Knopp;Laurent K. Lohourignon

  • Is heartworm disease really spreading in Europe

    Claudio Genchi;L. Rinaldi;C. Cascone;M. Mortarino

  • The global progress of soil-transmitted helminthiases control in 2020 and World Health Organization targets for 2030

    Antonio Montresor;Denise Mupfasoni;Alexei Mikhailov;Pauline Mwinzi

  • Increasing importance of anthelmintic resistance in European livestock: creation and meta-analysis of an open database

    Hannah Rose Vineer;Eric R. Morgan;Hubertus Hertzberg;David J. Bartley

  • Changing climate and changing vector-borne disease distribution: The example of Dirofilaria in Europe

    Claudio Genchi;Michele Mortarino;Laura Rinaldi;Giuseppe Cringoli

  • Parasites of domestic owned cats in Europe: Co-infestations and risk factors

    Frédéric Beugnet;Patrick Bourdeau;Karine Chalvet-Monfray;Vasile Cozma

  • Fasciola and fasciolosis in ruminants in Europe: Identifying research needs

    N. J. Beesley;C. Caminade;J. Charlier;R. J. Flynn

  • Hosts and habitats of Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella britovi in Europe.

    E. Pozio;L. Rinaldi;G. Marucci;V. Musella

  • A novel phylogeny for the genus Echinococcus, based on nuclear data, challenges relationships based on mitochondrial evidence

    U. Saarma;I. Jõgisalu;E. Moks;A. Varcasia

  • Mini-FLOTAC, an innovative direct diagnostic technique for intestinal parasitic infections: experience from the field.

    Beatrice Divina Barda;Laura Rinaldi;Davide Ianniello;Henry Zepherine

  • Widespread anthelmintic resistance in European farmed ruminants: a systematic review.

    H Rose;Laura Rinaldi;A Bosco;F Mavrot

  • FLOTAC: a new sensitive technique for the diagnosis of hookworm infections in humans.

    Jürg Utzinger;Laura Rinaldi;Laurent K. Lohourignon;Fabian Rohner

  • Practices to optimise gastrointestinal nematode control on sheep, goat and cattle farms in Europe using targeted (selective) treatments

    Johannes Charlier;ER Morgan;Laura Rinaldi;J van Dijk

  • A single FLOTAC is more sensitive than triplicate Kato-Katz for the diagnosis of low-intensity soil-transmitted helminth infections.

    Stefanie Knopp;Laura Rinaldi;I. Simba Khamis;J. Russell Stothard

  • Comparative cost assessment of the Kato-Katz and FLOTAC techniques for soil-transmitted helminth diagnosis in epidemiological surveys

    Benjamin Speich;Benjamin Speich;Stefanie Knopp;Stefanie Knopp;Khalfan A Mohammed;I Simba Khamis

  • Global Change and Helminth Infections in Grazing Ruminants in Europe: Impacts, Trends and Sustainable Solutions

    Eric R. Morgan;Johannes Charlier;Guy Hendrickx;Annibale Biggeri

  • Calibration and diagnostic accuracy of simple flotation, McMaster and FLOTAC for parasite egg counts in sheep

    L. Rinaldi;G.C. Coles;M.P. Maurelli;V. Musella

  • Discrimination of Gastrointestinal Nematode Eggs from Crude Fecal Egg Preparations by Inhibitor-Resistant Conventional and Real-Time PCR

    Janina Demeler;Sabrina Ramünke;Sonja Wolken;Davide Ianiello

  • Climate change: Production performance, health issues, greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation strategies in sheep and goat farming ☆

    R. Marino;A.S. Atzori;M. D'Andrea;G. Iovane

  • Diagnostic accuracy of Kato-Katz and FLOTAC for assessing anthelmintic drug efficacy

    Stefanie Knopp;Stefanie Knopp;Benjamin Speich;Benjamin Speich;Jan Hattendorf;Jan Hattendorf;Laura Rinaldi

  • A prevalence survey and risk analysis of filariosis in dogs from the Mt. Vesuvius area of southern Italy.

    G Cringoli;L Rinaldi;V Veneziano;G Capelli

  • The bias, accuracy and precision of faecal egg count reduction test results in cattle using McMaster, Cornell-Wisconsin and FLOTAC egg counting methods

    Bruno Levecke;Laura Rinaldi;Johannes Charlier;MP Maurelli

  • New insights into the application of geographical information systems and remote sensing in veterinary parasitology.

    Laura Rinaldi;Vincenzo Musella;Annibale Biggeri;Giuseppe Cringoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Cringoli
Giuseppe Cringoli University of Naples Federico II
Maria Paola Maurelli
Maria Paola Maurelli University of Naples Federico II
Vincenzo Musella
Vincenzo Musella Magna Graecia University
Vincenzo Veneziano
Vincenzo Veneziano University of Naples Federico II
Jürg Utzinger
Jürg Utzinger University of Basel
Jozef Vercruysse
Jozef Vercruysse Ghent University
Eric R. Morgan
Eric R. Morgan Queen's University Belfast
Jennifer Keiser
Jennifer Keiser Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Hubertus Hertzberg
Hubertus Hertzberg University of Zurich
Claudio Genchi
Claudio Genchi University of Milan

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