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    • Evaluation of passive integrated transponder tags for marking urodeles 

      Ribas, Maria P.; Alonso-Almorox, Paula; Espunyes, Johan; Martínez-Silvestre, Albert; Cabezon, Oscar (Ecological Indicators, 2022-11-15) Sanitat Animal
      The use of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags in urodeles has become popular for individual marking in population and disease ecology studies. However, mark loss or mark-induced mortality can ...
    • Evidence of Prolonged Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Endemicity by Retrospective Serosurvey, Eastern Spain 

      Carrera-Faja, Laura; Cardells, Jesús; Pailler García, Lola; Lizana, Víctor; Alfaro-Deval, Gemma; Espunyes, Johan; Napp, Sebastian; Cabezon, Oscar (Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022-04-07) Sanitat Animal
      We conducted a retrospective serosurvey for antibodies against Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in wild ungulates along the eastern Mediterranean Coast of Spain. The virus has been endemic in this ...
    • Infectious diseases of interest for the conservation of peccaries in the Amazon: A systematic quantitative review 

      Menajovsky, M.F.; Espunyes, J.; Cabezon, Oscar; Mayor, P. (Biological Conservation, 2022-12-23) Sanitat Animal
      Infectious diseases are increasingly emerging and spreading globally, ending up being considered a threat to biodiversity. In the Amazon region, repeated disappearance episodes of local populations of ...
    • Lack of Detection of Toxoplasma gondii in Pipistrellus spp. Bats from Densely Cat-Populated Areas of NE Spain 

      Lobato-Bailón, Lourdes; López-Morales, Ane; Quintela, Rita; Puig Ribas, Maria; Molina-López, Rafael; Obon, Elena; Napp, Sebastian; Pailler García, Lola; Espunyes, Johan; Cabezon, Oscar (Pathogens, 2022-12-01) Sanitat Animal
      Toxoplasma gondii infection in healthy animals is often asymptomatic. However, some species with little history of contact with the parasite, such as marsupials and New World primates, present high ...
    • Reappraising the use of forearm rings for bat species 

      Lobato-Bailón, Lourdes; López-Baucells, Adrià; Guixé, David; Flaquer, Carles; Camprodon, Jordi; Florensa-Rius, Xavier; Mas, Maria; Torrent, Laura; Ordeix, Laura; Tallo-Parra, Oriol; Ribas, Maria P.; Marco, Ignasi; Carvajal, Annaïs; López-Bejar, Manel; Napp, Sebastian; Pailler-García, Lola; Espunyes, Johan; Cabezón, Oscar (Biological Conservation, 2023-09-10) Sanitat Animal
      Long-term mark-recapture studies are essential for bat conservation. Over the last decades, millions of bats across Europe and America have been marked with forearm rings for this purpose. Although it ...
    • The fecal bacterial microbiome of the Kuhl's pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus kuhlii) reflects landscape anthropogenic pressure 

      Lobato-Bailón, Lourdes; García-Ulloa, Manuel; Santos, Andrés; Guixé, David; Camprodon, Jordi; Florensa-Rius, Xavier; Molleda, Raúl; Manzano, Robert; Ribas, Maria P.; Espunyes, Johan; Dias-Alves, Andrea; Marco, Ignasi; Migura, Lourdes; Martínez-Urtaza, Jaime; Cabezon, Oscar (Animal Microbiome, 2023-02-04) Sanitat Animal
      Background Anthropogenic disturbance has the potential to negatively affect wildlife health by altering food availability and diet composition, increasing the exposure to agrochemicals, and intensifying ...