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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Household satisfaction with health services and response strategies to malaria in mountain communities of Uganda. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 119(1):85-96.
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Human alveolar echinococcosis–global, regional, and national annual incidence and prevalence rates. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 31(7):1139-1145.
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A mapping review of worldwide current and previous cohort research programmes in cats and dogs. PLoS ONE, 20(6):e0321007.
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Randomised Badger Culling Trial—no effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle: comment on Mills, Woodroffe and Donnelly (2024a, 2024b). Royal Society Open Science, 12(6):241609.
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Gaming for change - exploring systems thinking and sustainable practices through complexity-inspired game mechanics. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 12(1):680.
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Leptospirosis. Nature Reviews. Disease Primers, 11(1):32.
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Prior corticosteroid treatment alters cPBMC composition and IFNγ response to immunotherapy in canine cancer. Frontiers in Immunology, 16:1544949.
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Setting-based surveillance and One Health in the Mpox response. One health outlook, 7(1):24.
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Quantifying national burdens of foodborne disease—Four imperatives for global impact. PLoS Global Public Health, 5(4):e0004309.
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Understanding and Developing Strategies for Managing Human-Macaque Interaction in Thailand Using a Participatory and One Health Approach. 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.
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Leptospirosis—Improving Healthcare Outcomes for a Neglected Tropical Disease. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 12(2):ofaf035.
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Socio-economic assessment of dog population management systems: a scoping review. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 12:1519913.
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Anatomical, functional, and blood-born predictors of severity of brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome severity in French Bulldogs. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 11:1486440.
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Leptospira seroprevalence and associated risk factors among slaughterhouse workers in Western Bahr El Ghazal State, South Sudan. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(12):e0012700.
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Global and regional prediction of heterakidosis population prevalence in extensive backyard chickens in low-income and middle-income countries. Veterinary Parasitology, 332:110329.