Professor Torgerson is a British trained veterinarian and graduated from Cambridge University in 1986. Subsequently after a period in clinical practice, first as a large animal intern at Glasgow Veterinary School followed by agricultural veterinary practice, Professor Torgerson returned to Cambridge to complete a PhD in Parasitology. He was subsequently appointed as a lecturer at University College Dublin where he developed an interest in parasite epidemiology. In 2002 he was invited to lead a group on parasite epidemiology at the Institute of Parasitology in Zurich and remained there until 2008. Following a brief spell at Ross University in The Caribbean, Professor Torgerson was appointed to the newly created chair of veterinary epidemiology in Zurich from late 2009. Professor Torgerson also holds the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Public Health with a speciality in population medicine and the Diploma of the European Veterinary Parasitology College.
Researcher profiles and publications
Professor Torgerson’s publications can be found at:
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Publications
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Is There Need for Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Patients with Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency When Using High-Caloric Liquid Diets? Orientating Studies on Praecaecal Digestibility in Pigs with Experimentally Induced Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency and Ileocaecal Fistula Biomolecules, 15, 1392. doi:10.3390/biom15101392
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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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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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Quantifying national burdens of foodborne disease—Four imperatives for global impact PLoS Global Public Health, 5(4):e0004309.
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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.
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The burden and distribution of cystic echinococcosis in Bhutan: a retrospective study Parasitology, 151(13):1432-1440.
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Global and regional prediction of coccidiosis and ascaridiosis prevalence in extensive backyard chickens in low-income and middle-income countries Veterinary Parasitology, 331:110268.
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Economic losses due to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Ethiopian cattle Preventive veterinary medicine, 230:106276.
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Global losses due to dairy cattle diseases: A comorbidity-adjusted economic analysis Journal of Dairy Science, 107(9):6945-6970.
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Prevalence data on chicken diseases in low-resource settings OIE Scientific and Technical Review, 43:39-47.
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Absence of effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle Scientific Reports, 14(1):16326.
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The Burden of Disease and Other Causes of Morbidity and Mortality in Backyard Chickens in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries 2024, University of Zurich, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät.
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Prediction of coccidiosis prevalence in extensive backyard chickens in countries and regions of the Horn of Africa Veterinary Parasitology, 327:110143.
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The influence of hypoxaemia, hypotension and hypercapnia (among other factors) on quality of recovery from general anaesthesia in horses Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 51(2):135-143.
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The importance of estimating the burden of disease from foodborne transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(2):e0011898.
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Environmental distribution of Echinococcus and Taenia spp-contaminated dog faeces in Kyrgyzstan 2024, University of Zurich, Vetsuisse Faculty.
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Environmental distribution of Echinococcus and Taenia spp-contaminated dog faeces in Kyrgyzstan Parasitology, 151(1):84-92.
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Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals Global Food Security, 39:100722.
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The global burden of neglected zoonotic diseases: Current state of evidence One health, 17:100595.