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Marco Genchi

Marco Genchi

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
33
Citations
4196
World Ranking
1988
National Ranking
92

Overview

Marco Genchi is affiliated with the University of Parma in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on parasitology, infectious diseases, and related fields within medicine and microbiology. The scientist's work explores various aspects of parasitic diseases, host-parasite interactions, diagnostics, and control methods.

The main fields of study for Marco Genchi include:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology

Subfields of research encompass:

  • Parasitology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The key topics addressed in their research are:

  • Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Helminth infection and control
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Marco Genchi include:

  • Alice Vismarra
  • Laura Kramer
  • Lavinia Ciucă
  • Giuseppe Cringoli
  • Laura Rinaldi

Marco Genchi has contributed to several publication venues with a concentration of work in journals specializing in parasitology and veterinary parasitology. The main publication venues are:

  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Veterinary Parasitology
  • Veterinary Parasitology Regional Studies and Reports
  • Research Square
  • Communications Biology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Marco Genchi include:

  • Prevalence and risk factors associated with cat parasites in Italy: a multicenter study, 2021, Parasites & Vectors
  • Evaluation of alternative reagents on the performance of the modified Knott's test, 2021, Veterinary Parasitology

Other listed papers from related collaborators include:

  • Chimeric symbionts expressing a Wolbachia protein stimulate mosquito immunity and inhibit filarial parasite development, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Effectiveness of Fenbendazole and Metronidazole Against Giardia Infection in Dogs Monitored for 50-Days in Home-Conditions, 2021, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Toxoplasma gondii in the Eurasian kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in northern Italy, 2020, Parasites & Vectors

Best Publications

  • Bacteria of the genus Asaia stably associate with Anopheles stephensi, an Asian malarial mosquito vector

    Guido Favia;Irene Ricci;Claudia Damiani;Noura Raddadi

  • Climate and Dirofilaria infection in Europe.

    Claudio Genchi;Laura Rinaldi;Michele Mortarino;Marco Genchi

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

    Claudio Genchi;Michele Mortarino;Laura Rinaldi;Giuseppe Cringoli

  • Asaia, a versatile acetic acid bacterial symbiont, capable of cross-colonizing insects of phylogenetically distant genera and orders.

    Elena Crotti;Claudia Damiani;Massimo Pajoro;Elena Gonella

  • Combined ivermectin and doxycycline treatment has microfilaricidal and adulticidal activity against Dirofilaria immitis in experimentally infected dogs

    C. Bazzocchi;M. Mortarino;G. Grandi;L.H. Kramer

  • Mosquito-Bacteria Symbiosis: The Case of Anopheles gambiae and Asaia

    Claudia Damiani;Irene Ricci;Elena Crotti;Paolo Rossi

  • Midichloria mitochondrii is widespread in hard ticks (Ixodidae) and resides in the mitochondria of phylogenetically diverse species.

    S. Epis;D. Sassera;T. Beninati;N.L. Lo

  • Multiple symbiosis in the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): details of transovarial transmission of Cardinium sp. and yeast-like endosymbionts.

    L. Sacchi;M. Genchi;E. Clementi;Elisa Bigliardi

  • Highly sensitive multiplex PCR for simultaneous detection and discrimination of Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens in canine peripheral blood.

    Gloria Gioia;L Lecová;M Genchi;E Ferri

  • A combination of doxycycline and ivermectin is adulticidal in dogs with naturally acquired heartworm disease (Dirofilaria immitis)

    G. Grandi;C. Quintavalla;A. Mavropoulou;M. Genchi

  • Evaluation of lung pathology in Dirofilaria immitis-experimentally infected dogs treated with doxycycline or a combination of doxycycline and ivermectin before administration of melarsomine dihydrochloride.

    L. Kramer;G. Grandi;B. Passeri;P. Gianelli

  • Can heartworm prevalence in dogs be used as provisional data for assessing the prevalence of the infection in cats

    L. Venco;M. Genchi;C. Genchi;D. Gatti

  • Detection of Toxoplasma gondii in free-range, organic pigs in Italy using serological and molecular methods.

    C Bacci;A Vismarra;C Mangia;S Bonardi

  • Clinical evolution and radiographic findings of feline heartworm infection in asymptomatic cats.

    L. Venco;C. Genchi;M. Genchi;G. Grandi

  • Is Wolbachia complicating the pathological effects of Dirofilaria immitis infections

    L. Kramer;F. Simón;F. Tamarozzi;M. Genchi

  • Heat treatment and false-positive heartworm antigen testing in ex vivo parasites and dogs naturally infected by Dirofilaria repens and Angiostrongylus vasorum.

    Luigi Venco;Simone Manzocchi;Marco Genchi;Laura H. Kramer

  • Feline heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) infection: a statistical elaboration of the duration of the infection and life expectancy in asymptomatic cats.

    Claudio Genchi;Luigi Venco;Nicola Ferrari;Michele Mortarino

  • Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens in dog and cat: A questionnaire study in Italy.

    Marco Genchi;Laura Rinaldi;Luigi Venco;Giuseppe Cringoli

  • Relation between Aelurostrongylus abstrusus larvae excretion, respiratory and radiographic signs in naturally infected cats.

    Marco Genchi;Nicola Ferrari;Paolo Fonti;Ivana De Francesco

  • Localization of the bacterial symbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii within the hard tick Ixodes ricinus by whole-mount FISH staining.

    Sara Epis;Mauro Mandrioli;Marco Genchi;Matteo Montagna

  • Canine Fecal Contamination in a Metropolitan Area (Milan, North-Western Italy): Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites and Evaluation of Health Risks

    Sergio Aurelio Zanzani;Anna Rita Di Cerbo;Alessia Libera Gazzonis;Marco Genchi

  • Ultrastructure of a novel Cardinium sp. symbiont in Scaphoideus titanus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae).

    E. Bigliardi;L. Sacchi;M. Genchi;A. Alma

  • Detection of a morphogenetically novel Sarcocystis hominis-like in the context of a prevalence study in semi-intensively bred cattle in Italy.

    Lorenzo Domenis;Simone Peletto;Luciano Sacchi;Emanuela Clementi

  • A duplex real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of and differentiation between Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens in dogs and mosquitoes

    Maria Stefania Latrofa;Filipe Dantas-Torres;Giada Annoscia;Marco Genchi

  • Acute visceral cysticercosis by Taenia hydatigena in lambs and treatment with praziquantel.

    Antonio Scala;Giovanni Urrai;Antonio Varcasia;Paola Nicolussi

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Genchi
Claudio Genchi University of Milan
Laura D. Kramer
Laura D. Kramer University at Albany, State University of New York
Claudio Bandi
Claudio Bandi University of Milan
Laura Rinaldi
Laura Rinaldi University of Naples Federico II
Daniele Daffonchio
Daniele Daffonchio King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Giuseppe Cringoli
Giuseppe Cringoli University of Naples Federico II
Alberto Alma
Alberto Alma University of Turin
Antonio Varcasia
Antonio Varcasia University of Sassari
Antonio Scala
Antonio Scala University of Sassari
Rodrigo Morchón
Rodrigo Morchón University of Salamanca

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