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2023

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Immunology

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73
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17499
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2148
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190

Animal Science and Veterinary

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73
Citations
17522
World Ranking
133
National Ranking
15

Tanja Opriessnig publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tanja Opriessnig sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 288 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Tanja Opriessnig D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tanja Opriessnig sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 73 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United States Leader Award

Overview

Tanja Opriessnig is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Infectious Diseases, Animal Science and Zoology, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Epidemiology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, such as:

  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Microbial infections and disease research
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Xenotransplantation
  • Archives of Virology
  • Vaccine
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Pathogens

Among their recent scientific contributions are several papers authored or co-authored by them, including:

  • Porcine circoviruses: current status, knowledge gaps and challenges, 2020, Virus Research
  • Erysipelothrix Spp.: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Vaccine Research, 2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Other notable publications co-authored by researchers frequently collaborating with Opriessnig include:

  • Taxonomic update for mammalian anelloviruses (family Anelloviridae), 2021, Archives of Virology
  • Review: Livestock disease resilience: from individual to herd level, 2021, animal
  • Isolation and evolutionary analyses of gout-associated goose astrovirus causing disease in experimentally infected chickens, 2020, Poultry Science

Opriessnig's frequent collaborators include Patrick G. Halbur, Anbu K. Karuppannan, Chao-Ting Xiao, Yao-Wei Huang, and Christine Tait-Burkard with whom they have published multiple studies. These partnerships suggest a network focused on veterinary sciences and virology.

Best Publications

  • Porcine circovirus type 2-associated disease: Update on current terminology, clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and intervention strategies

    Tanja Opriessnig;Xiang-Jin Meng;Patrick G. Halbur

  • Origin, Evolution, and Genotyping of Emergent Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Strains in the United States

    Yao Wei Huang;Yao Wei Huang;Allan W. Dickerman;Pablo Piñeyro;Long Li

  • Polymicrobial respiratory disease in pigs

    Tanja Opriessnig;L G Giménez-Lirola;P G Halbur

  • Experimental reproduction of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in pigs by dual infection with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and porcine circovirus type 2.

    T. Opriessnig;E. L. Thacker;S. Yu;M. Fenaux

  • Detection and characterization of infectious Hepatitis E virus from commercial pig livers sold in local grocery stores in the USA

    A. R. Feagins;T. Opriessnig;D. K. Guenette;P. G. Halbur

  • Porcine Circovirus Type 2 and Porcine Circovirus-Associated Disease

    J. Gillespie;Tanja Opriessnig;X.J. Meng;K. Pelzer

  • A Chimeric Porcine Circovirus (PCV) with the Immunogenic Capsid Gene of the Pathogenic PCV Type 2 (PCV2) Cloned into the Genomic Backbone of the Nonpathogenic PCV1 Induces Protective Immunity against PCV2 Infection in Pigs

    M. Fenaux;T. Opriessnig;P. G. Halbur;F. Elvinger

  • Effect of Vaccination with Selective Bacterins on Conventional Pigs Infected with Type 2 Porcine Circovirus

    T. Opriessnig;S. Yu;J. M. Gallup;R. B. Evans

  • Global molecular genetic analysis of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) sequences confirms the presence of four main PCV2 genotypes and reveals a rapid increase of PCV2d

    Chao-Ting Xiao;Patrick G. Halbur;Tanja Opriessnig;Tanja Opriessnig

  • Comparison of Molecular and Biological Characteristics of a Modified Live Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) Vaccine (Ingelvac PRRS MLV), the Parent Strain of the Vaccine (ATCC VR2332), ATCC VR2385, and Two Recent Field Isolates of PRRSV

    T. Opriessnig;P. G. Halbur;K.-J. Yoon;R. M. Pogranichniy

  • Immunogenicity and Pathogenicity of Chimeric Infectious DNA Clones of Pathogenic Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) and Nonpathogenic PCV1 in Weanling Pigs

    M. Fenaux;T. Opriessnig;P. G. Halbur;X. J. Meng

  • Novel circovirus species identified in farmed pigs designated as Porcine circovirus 4, Hunan province, China.

    Hui-Hui Zhang;Wen-Qin Hu;Jie-Yu Li;Tian-Ning Liu

  • Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) coinfections in US field cases of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS)

    F.J. Pallarés;P.G. Halbur;Tanja Opriessnig;S.D. Sorden

  • Two Amino Acid Mutations in the Capsid Protein of Type 2 Porcine Circovirus (PCV2) Enhanced PCV2 Replication In Vitro and Attenuated the Virus In Vivo

    M. Fenaux;T. Opriessnig;P. G. Halbur;F. Elvinger

  • Inactivation of infectious hepatitis E virus present in commercial pig livers sold in local grocery stores in the United States.

    A.R. Feagins;T. Opriessnig;D.K. Guenette;P.G. Halbur

  • Concurrent infections are important for expression of porcine circovirus associated disease.

    Tanja Opriessnig;Patrick G. Halbur

  • Epidemiology and transmission of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2)

    Nicolas Rose;Tanja Opriessnig;Béatrice Grasland;André Jestin

  • Pigs Lacking the Scavenger Receptor Cysteine-Rich Domain 5 of CD163 Are Resistant to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus 1 Infection.

    Christine Burkard;Tanja Opriessnig;Tanja Opriessnig;Alan J Mileham;Tomasz Stadejek

  • Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) Vaccines in the Context of Current Molecular Epidemiology

    Anbu K Karuppannan;Tanja Opriessnig

  • Porcine circoviruses: current status, knowledge gaps and challenges.

    Tanja Opriessnig;Tanja Opriessnig;Anbu K. Karuppannan;Alessandra M.M.G. Castro;Chao-Ting Xiao

  • Initiation at the third in-frame AUG codon of open reading frame 3 of the hepatitis E virus is essential for viral infectivity in vivo

    Y. W. Huang;T. Opriessnig;P. G. Halbur;X. J. Meng

  • Differences in virulence among porcine circovirus type 2 isolates are unrelated to cluster type 2a or 2b and prior infection provides heterologous protection.

    Tanja Opriessnig;S Ramamoorthy;D M Madson;A R Patterson

  • Evidence of Breed-dependent Differences in Susceptibility to Porcine Circovirus Type-2-associated Disease and Lesions:

    T. Opriessnig;M. Fenaux;P. Thomas;M. J. Hoogland

  • Effects of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) Maternal Antibodies on Experimental Infection of Piglets with PCV2

    N. E. McKeown;T. Opriessnig;P. Thomas;D. K. Guenette

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick G. Halbur
Patrick G. Halbur Iowa State University
Xiang-Jin Meng
Xiang-Jin Meng Virginia Tech
Eileen L. Thacker
Eileen L. Thacker Agricultural Research Service
Kelly M. Lager
Kelly M. Lager Agricultural Research Service
Phillip C. Gauger
Phillip C. Gauger Iowa State University
Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Kyoung-Jin Yoon Iowa State University
Amy L. Vincent
Amy L. Vincent Agricultural Research Service
Eric Delwart
Eric Delwart University of California, San Francisco
Joan K. Lunney
Joan K. Lunney Agricultural Research Service
Marcus E. Kehrli
Marcus E. Kehrli Agricultural Research Service

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