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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Evaluation of Three Commercial Interferon-γ Assays in a Bovine Tuberculosis Free Population Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8:682466.
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System thinking and citizen participation is still missing in One Health initiatives – Lessons from fifteen evaluations Frontiers in Public Health, 9:653398.
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Alternatives to robenidine to control gastrointestinal disorders of weaner rabbits in the field Veterinary and animal science, 13:100179.
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Formal Comment; Tracing the source of infection of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis, neglected parasitic infections with long latency: The shaky road of “evidence” gathering PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(3):e0009296.
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Comparative study of free-roaming domestic dog management and roaming behavior across four countries: Chad, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Uganda Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8:617900.
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Issues and pitfalls in the use of p-values Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 48(2):155-159.
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Antibody kinetics and exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in cats: a seroepidemiological study International Journal for Parasitology, 51(4):291-299.
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Chlamydia pecorum–Induced Arthritis in Experimentally and Naturally Infected Sheep Veterinary Pathology, 58(2):346-360.
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Prevalence and molecular characterization of C. pecorum detected in Swiss fattening pigs Veterinary Microbiology, 256:109062.
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Roll-out of the global burden of animal diseases programme The Lancet, 397(10279):1045-1046.
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Epidemiology and spatial modelling of cystic and alveolar Echinococcosis in Kyrgyzstan 2021, University of Zurich, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät.
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Bayesian latent class models to estimate diagnostic test accuracies of COVID‐19 tests Journal of Medical Virology, 93(2):639-640.
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Potential mechanical transmission of Lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) by the stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) through regurgitation and defecation Current research in insect science, 1:100007.
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A simple metric to capture losses. The concept of an animal health loss envelope OIE Bulletin (English Edition), Panorama:2-5.
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Epidemiology and control In: Dalton, John . Fasciolosis (2nd edition). Oxford: CABI International, 180-210.
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Studies on the population biology of helminth parasites of fish species from the Caspian Sea drainage basin Journal of Helminthology, 95:e12.