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Veterinary Medical Research Institute for Piedmont, Liguria and the Aosta Valley, 10154 Turin, Italy
Interests: whole genome sequencing; molecular typing; food-borne pathogens; food-borne outbreak; Staphylococcus aureus; Enterotoxigenic bacteria
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Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna, Via E. Diena, 16, 41122 Modena, Italy
Interests: diagnosis of animal infectious diseases and zoonosis; microbiology; parasitology; porcine health management; food safety; molecular typing and epidemiology of Leishmania spp.
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Department of Environmental Microbiology, The University of Life Sciences, Leszczyńskiego 7 St., 20-069 Lublin, Poland
Interests: environmental microbiology; environmental biotechnology; xenobiotics biodegradation; antimicrobial properties
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Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
Interests: microbiology; infectious diseases; foodborne–waterborne diseases; antimicrobial resistance
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Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Piazza di Porta S.Donato 1, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: bats; One Health; parasites; wildlife; ecology

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Laboratory of Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin – Veterinary Public Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: food microbiology; antimicrobial resistance of foodborne pathogens (especially methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – MRSA); food hygiene and food safety; veterinary public health
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Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada
Interests: infectious diseases; mycobacteria; M. tuberculosis complex; latent tuberculosis infection; nontuberculous mycobacteria; epidemiology; genotyping, diagnostics and drug resistance
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Division of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; bacterial biofilms; cytoskeleton; helicobacter; host-pathogen interactions; novel antimicrobial agents; serine proteases; signal transduction; tight junctions

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1. Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2. Section of Clinical Chemistry, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Interests: SARS-CoV-2 testing; virology; pathology; immunology; medicine

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Department of Ophthalmology/Mason Eye Institute, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
Interests: innate immunity; host-pathogen interaction; ocular infection; inflammation; viruses; glaucoma; gene therapy
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Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: Study of the effects of drugs on the internalization process of Helicobacter pylori; molecular studies of resistance to antimicrobial agents; effect of new molecules against H. pylori in sessile and planktonic form; pathogenicity of H. pylori; antimicrobial susceptibility testing of H. pylori to new synthetized drugs.
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CBR Division, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory DSTL, Salisbury, UK
Interests: filoviruses; emerging viruses; aerobiology; animal model development; medical countermeasures to hazard group 4 viruses; survival and inactivation of hazard group 4 viruses

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Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Interests: HIV latency; innate immunity; immunotherapy
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Laboratory of Parasitology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation- Demeter, 57100 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: epidemiology of parasitic infections; integrated disease management (including antiparasitic treatments and alternatives solutions) oses; spread of parasitic zoon

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Department of Biology, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX 76204, USA
Interests: herpesviruses; virus-host interactions; viral immune modulation; virus evolution
Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR, USA
Interests: biofilm; antimicrobial resistance; food safety
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Gladstone research institute, San Francisco, CA-94158, USA
Interests: virology; host-virus interactions; viral immunology; cell death; apoptosis; autophagy; antivirals; intrinsic immunity

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Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 101 Rouse Life Science Building, Auburn, AL 36832, USA
Interests: viral RNA structure; RNA and protein interactions; epitranscriptomic modifications; long non-coding RNAs; viral RNA; herpesviruses
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Veterinary Infectious Disease, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Towada 034-8628, Japan
Interests: coronavirus; norovirus; viral gastroenteritis; antiviral drug; vaccine development; antibody-dependent enhancement; viral infection of cats and dogs
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Clinic for Child and Adolescent Medicine, Sana Klinikum Lichtenberg, Academic Teaching Hospital, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Interests: respiratory tract infections; CNS infections; biomarker diagnostics, antibiotic stewardship
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Unidad de Biomedicina, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Tlalnepantla 54090, Mexico
Interests: immunoregulation in parasitic diseases, mainly how helminths and the molecules they release may affect dendritic cell maturation as well as macrophage’s response to inflammatory stimulus; how these interactions between helminths and their molecules with the host may modify the immune response to other pathogens or inflammatory-mediated diseases (co-infections and co-morbidities)
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Borgo XX Giugno 74, 06121 Perugia, Italy
Interests: plant pathology; fungi; fusarium head blight; barley net blotch; wheat; barly
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Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Interests: helminths; nematodes; host-parasite interactions; excretory/secretory proteins; proteomics; non-coding RNA; microRNA; extracellular vesicles
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Interests: viral genetic diversity and evolution; virus discovery; zoonotic and emerging viruses; mucosal immunity and respiratory viruses; vaccines
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College of Veterinary Medicine, Murdoch University, Murdoch 6150, Australia
Interests: host-pathogen interactions; animal science and production; immunology; genomics; infectious diseases
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Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: veterinary helminthology - gastrointestinal nematodes and lungworms in domestic and wild ruminants; diagnosis of parasitic infections; control of parasitic gastroenteritis; anthelmintic resistance; epidemiology of helminth infections
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Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61802, USA
Interests: foodborne diseases; antimicrobial resistance; spatial epidemiology
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Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: discovery & development of antimicrobial agents and understanding their mode-of-actions; drug-resistance mechanisms; fungal and bacterial pathogenesis and their interactions

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Department Agriculture Crop Production and Environment, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Interests: plant pathogens; chemical control of plant diseases; biological control of plant diseases; resistance of plant pathogenic fungi to fungicides
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