About Us
The section of epidemiology is lead by Prof. Paul Torgerson in collaboration with three senior research assistants. We are involved in many projects at the university of Zurich and elsewere. The collaborators working in our offices at the Tierspital in Zürich are listed on the Staff page.
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Our Publications on ZORA
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Publications
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Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, 863526. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.863526
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Estimating the burden of multiple endemic diseases and health conditions using Bayes’ Theorem: A conditional probability model applied to UK dairy cattle Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 203, 105617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2022.105617
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Outer retinal thickness and visibility of the choriocapillaris in four distinct retinal regions imaged with spectral domain optical coherence tomography in dogs and cats Veterinary Ophthalmology, 25, 122–135. https://doi.org/10.1111/vop.12989
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Ex vivo comparison of 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging and multidetector computed tomography arthrography to identify artificial soft tissue lesions in equine stifles Veterinary Surgery, 51, 648–657. https://doi.org/10.1111/vsu.13798
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Antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and prevalence of extended‐spectrum beta‐lactamase‐producing Enterobacteriaceae in calves from organic and conventional dairy farms in Switzerland MicrobiologyOpen, 11, e1269. https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1269
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Assessment of the effect of snakebite on health and socioeconomic factors using a One Health perspective in the Terai region of Nepal: a cross-sectional study The Lancet Global Health, 10, e409–e415. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(21)00549-0
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What is the role of badger culling as a control measure for bovine TB? Veterinary Record, 190, 236–238. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.1603
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New World camelids are sentinels for the presence of Borna disease virus Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 69, 451–464. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.14003
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Assessing Moral Judgements in Veterinary Students: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study from Germany Animals, 12, 586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12050586
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Ergebnisse einer Umfrage zur Verschreibung von Antibiotika in der Veterinärmedizin Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde, 164, 144–152. https://doi.org/10.17236/sat00342
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Diagnostic accuracy of three commercially available one step RT-PCR assays for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in resource limited settings PLoS ONE, 17, e0262178. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262178
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One Health and Biodiversity In I. Visseren-Hamakers & M. T. J. Kok (Eds.), Transforming Biodiversity Governance (pp. 93–114). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856348.006
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The impact of natural environment on human alveolar echinococcosis: A township-level modeling study in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Science of the Total Environment, 856, 159085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159085
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Effectiveness of One Health approach for control of Kyasanur Forest Disease in Wayanad, Kerala, India Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 59, 70–78. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-9062.331407
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Enabling Transformative Biodiversity Governance in the Post-2020 Era In I. J. Visseren-Hamakers & M. T. J. Kok (Eds.), Transforming Biodiversity Governance (pp. 341–360). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856348.017
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Protocol of the Dual Burden of Animal and Human Zoonoses: A Systematic Review https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202207.0315.v1
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Integrating digital and field surveillance as complementary efforts to manage epidemic diseases of livestock: African swine fever as a case study PLoS ONE, 16, e0252972. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252972
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Vector competence of Culicoides biting midges from Switzerland for African horse sickness virus and epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus Schweizer Archiv Für Tierheilkunde, 164, 66–70. https://doi.org/10.17236/sat00337
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Teaching: confidence, prediction and tolerance intervals in scientific practice: a tutorial on binary variables Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 18, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-021-00108-1
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Modelling bluetongue risk in Kazakhstan Parasites & Vectors, 14, 491. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04945-6