Companion animal parasitic diseases

I principali argomenti di ricerca del gruppo Vet 06 riguardano gli elminti degli animali domestici, i patogeni trasmessi da vettore e i patogeni idrodiffusi, con un focus sull’epidemiologia, la diagnosi, gli aspetti clinici e l’efficacia degli antiparassitari.

• Donato Traversa, Professore Ordinario
• Angela Di Cesare, Professore Associato
• Simone Morelli, Ricercatore di tipo B
• Barbara Paoletti, Ricercatore
• Raffaella Iorio, Tecnico di laboratorio
• Roberto Bartolini, Tecnico di laboratorio
• Chiara Astuti, Dottoranda

• Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;

• Dipartimento MAPS, Università di Padova, Italia;

• Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Perugia, Italia;

• Multinational Drug Company (e.g. Boehringer Ingelheim, IDEXX, Klifovet, MSD, Zoetis)

1. Colombo M, Traversa D, Grillotti E, Pezzuto C, De Tommaso C, Pampurini F, Schaper R, Drake J, Crisi PE, Russi I, Ripamonti M, Di Cesare A. Highly Variable Clinical Pictures in Dogs Naturally Infected with Angiostrongylus vasorum. Pathogens. 2021 Oct 23;10(11):1372. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10111372. PMID: 34832528; PMCID: PMC8621248.
2. Cvejić D, Mencke N, Petry G, Ringeisen H, Hamburg H, Hellmann K, Traversa D, Morelli S, Di Cesare A, Diakou A, Farkas R. Multicenter randomized, and blinded European field study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Felpreva®, a novel spot-on formulation containing tigolaner, emodepside and praziquantel, in treating cats with mixed infection with intestinal nematodes, cestodes and/or lungworms. Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis. 2022 Aug 10;2:100098. doi: 10.1016/j.crpvbd.2022.100098. PMID: 35991086; PMCID: PMC9382413.
3. Di Cesare A, Morelli S, Morganti G, Simonato G, Veronesi F, Colombo M, Berlanda M, Lebon W, Gallo M, Beugnet F, Traversa D. Efficacy of milbemycin oxime/afoxolaner chewable tablets (NEXGARD SPECTRA®) against Capillaria aerophila and Capillaria boehmi in naturally infected dogs. Parasit Vectors. 2021 Mar 6;14(1):143. doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-04648-y. PMID: 33676579; PMCID: PMC7937313.
4. Crisi PE, Paoletti B, Morelli S, Simonato G, Colombo M, Tiscar PG, Boari A. Tritrichomonas foetus in cats from Central Italy: Clinical signs and risk factors. Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports. 2021 Apr;24:100577. doi: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2021.100577. Epub 2021 Apr 14. PMID: 34024393.
5. Grillini M, Simonato G, Tessarin C, Dotto G, Traversa D, Cassini R, Marchiori E, Frangipane di Regalbono A. Cytauxzoon sp. and Hepatozoon spp. in Domestic Cats: A Preliminary Study in North-Eastern Italy. Pathogens. 2021 Sep 18;10(9):1214. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10091214. PMID: 34578245; PMCID: PMC8468074.
6. Morelli S, Diakou A, Di Cesare A, Schnyder M, Colombo M, Strube C, Dimzas D, Latino R, Traversa D. Feline lungworms in Greece: copromicroscopic, molecular and serological study. Parasitol Res. 2020 Sep;119(9):2877-2883. doi: 10.1007/s00436-020-06839-5. Epub 2020 Aug 4. PMID: 32748040.
7. Morelli S, Colombo M, Dimzas D, Barlaam A, Traversa D, Di Cesare A, Russi I, Spoletini R, Paoletti B, Diakou A. Leishmania infantum Seroprevalence in Cats From Touristic Areas of Italy and Greece. Front Vet Sci. 2020 Dec 11;7:616566. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.616566. PMID: 33363245; PMCID: PMC7759650.
8. Morelli S, Diakou A, Di Cesare A, Colombo M, Traversa D. Canine and Feline Parasitology: Analogies, Differences, and Relevance for Human Health. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2021 Dec 15;34(4):e0026620. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00266-20. Epub 2021 Aug 11. PMID: 34378954; PMCID: PMC8404700.
9. Morelli S, Marruchella G, Passarelli A, Diakou A, Di Cesare A, Colombo M, Frangipane di Regalbono A, Frate A, Traversa D. An Unusual Case of Mixed Respiratory Capillariosis in a Dog. Pathogens. 2021 Jan 23;10(2):117. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10020117. PMID: 33498766; PMCID: PMC7911517.
10. Morelli S, Diakou A, Traversa D, Di Gennaro E, Simonato G, Colombo M, Dimzas D, Grillini M, Frangipane di Regalbono A, Beugnet F, Halos L, Paoletti B, Di Cesare A. First record of Hepatozoon spp. in domestic cats in Greece. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2021 Jan;12(1):101580. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101580. Epub 2020 Oct 6. PMID: 33113475.
11. Morelli S, Gori F, Colombo M, Traversa D, Sarrocco G, Simonato G, Nespeca C, Di Cesare A, Frangipane di Regalbono A, Veronesi F, Russi I, Schnyder M. Simultaneous Exposure to Angiostrongylus vasorum and Vector-Borne Pathogens in Dogs from Italy. Pathogens. 2021 Sep 15;10(9):1200. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10091200. PMID: 34578232; PMCID: PMC8472057.
12. Morelli S, Traversa D, Diakou A, Colombo M, Russi I, Mestek A, Chandrashekar R, Beall M, Paoletti B, Iorio R, Tsokana A, De Cristofaro D, Barlaam A, Simonato G, Di Cesare A. A Comparison of Copromicroscopic and Molecular Methods for the Diagnosis of Cat Aelurostrongylosis. Animals (Basel). 2022 Apr 14;12(8):1024. doi: 10.3390/ani12081024. PMID: 35454269; PMCID: PMC9029056.
13. Morelli S, Diakou A, Frangipane di Regalbono A, Colombo M, Simonato G, Di Cesare A, Passarelli A, Pezzuto C, Tzitzoudi Z, Barlaam A, Beall M, Chandrashekar R, Pantchev N, Traversa D. Use of In-Clinic Diagnostic Kits for the Detection of Seropositivity to Leishmania infantum and Other Major Vector-Borne Pathogens in Healthy Dogs. Pathogens. 2023 May 11;12(5):696. doi: 10.3390/pathogens12050696. PMID: 37242366; PMCID: PMC10224148.
14. Tinoco FV, Morelli S, de Farias Brito M, Oliveira Pereira G, Correia Oliveira M, Diakou A, Colombo M, Frangipane di Regalbono A, Traversa D. Hemorrhagic Meningoencephalomyelitis Due to Ectopic Localization of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in a Cat: First Case Report. Animals (Basel). 2022 Jan 6;12(2):128. doi: 10.3390/ani12020128. PMID: 35049752; PMCID: PMC8772558.
15. Traversa D, Morelli S, Cassini R, Crisi PE, Russi I, Grillotti E, Manzocchi S, Simonato G, Beraldo P, Viglietti A, De Tommaso C, Pezzuto C, Pampurini F, Schaper R, Frangipane di Regalbono A. Occurrence of canine and feline extra-intestinal nematodes in key endemic regions of Italy. Acta Trop. 2019 May;193:227-235. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.03.009. Epub 2019 Mar 8. PMID: 30857861.
16. Traversa D, Morelli S, Di Cesare A, Strube C, Raue K, Bisterfeld K, Boehm C, Pollmeier M, Ringeisen H, Blazejak K, Mencke N. Efficacy of two topical combinations containing emodepside plus praziquantel, and emodepside plus praziquantel plus tigolaner, for the treatment of troglostrongylosis in experimentally infected cats. Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis. 2022 Aug 10;2:100097. doi: 10.1016/j.crpvbd.2022.100097. PMID: 35991087; PMCID: PMC9382431.