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
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Publications
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Porcine teschovirus, sapelovirus and enterovirus in Swiss pigs: investigation of prevalences and disease association by multiplex RT-PCR (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-198380
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Genotypes of Echinococcus isolated from domestic livestock in Kazakhstan Journal of Helminthology, 94, e69. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x19000634
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Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis: a systematic review of the distribution in central and western Asia and the Caucasus Parasites & Vectors, 12, 175. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3438-3
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Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis: a systematic review of the distribution in West and Central Africa Parasites & Vectors, 12, 324. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3584-7
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Cystic echinococcosis and other helminth infections of wild boar in northeastern and northwestern regions of Tunisia Parasitology, 146, 1263–1274. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182019000532
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Bovine leptospirosis in abattoirs in Uganda: Molecular detection and risk of exposure among workers Zoonoses and Public Health, 66, 636–646. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12616
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Economic and health burden of brucellosis in Kazakhstan Zoonoses and Public Health, 66, 487–494. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12582
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Foodborne Parasites in Europe: present status and future trends Trends in Parasitology, 35, 695–703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2019.07.002
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Räumliche Unterschiede in der Prävalenz von Rinderkrankheiten in einer Nutztierpraxis Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde, 161, 85–92. https://doi.org/10.17236/sat00195
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Food-borne Trematodiases in East Asia: Epidemiology and Burden In J. Utzinger, P. Yap, M. Bratschi, & P. Steinmann (Eds.), Neglected Tropical Diseases - East Asia (pp. 13–38). Springer (Bücher). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12008-5_2
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Global disease burden of pathogens in animal source foods, 2010 PLoS ONE, 14, e0216545. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216545
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Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis in the Russian Federation Parasites & Vectors, 11, 636. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3236-3
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Water filtered infrared A and visible light (wIRA/VIS) irradiation reduces chlamydia trachomatis infectivity independent of targeted cytokine inhibition Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 2757. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02757
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Foodborne parasitic diseases in Europe: social cost-benefit analyses of interventions Trends in Parasitology, 34, 919–923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2018.05.007
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Etablierung von definierten Tagesdosierungen und definierten Gesamtbehandlungsdosierungen zur Messung des Antibiotikaverbrauchs in der Schweizer Schweineproduktion GST-Bulletin, 160, 597–605. https://doi.org/10.17236/sat00179
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Diversity and seasonal abundances of mosquitoes at potential arboviral transmission sites in two different climate zones in Switzerland Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 32, 175–185. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12292
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How to improve the standardization and the diagnostic performance of the fecal egg count reduction test? Veterinary Parasitology, 253, 71–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2018.02.004
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Burden and risk assessment of foodborne parasites In Y. Ortega & C. Sterling (Eds.), Foodborne parasites (pp. 341–365). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67664-7_15
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Initiation of Global Burden of Animal Diseases Programme The Lancet, 392, 538–540. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31472-7
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Experimental evaluation of infection, dissemination, and transmission rates for two West Nile virus strains in European Aedes japonicus under a fluctuating temperature regime Parasitology Research, 117, 1925–1932. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5886-7