Adriano Pintér, MVD, PhD: "Borrelia presence within hard ticks in South-America"

Tuesday, July 4, 2017, 01.00 pm, Hygiene Institute, Seminar Room 3, Kinderspitalgasse 15, Vienna IX

COLLOQUIUM IN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, INFECTIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

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Adriano Pintér, MVD, PhD
Scientific Researcher Sao Paulo State Public Health Department, Brazil

Feb 2001–Mar 2007 PhD Student University of São Paulo · Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health (VPS) Brazil · São Paulo

Mar 2007–Apr 2008 Postdoc Position University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · Department of Pathology · Dr. Walker's Lab United States

2008 – now Scientific Researcher on São Paulo State Public Health Department. Development of researcher project on tick biology and tick-borne-diseases.

Publications:

• Scinachi, C.A.; Takeda, G.A.C.G.; Mucci, L.F.; Pintér, A. Association of the occurrence of Brazilian spotted fever and Atlantic rain forest fragmentation in the São Paulo metropolitan region, Brazil. Acta Tropica 166, 225-233, 2017

• Ogrzewalska M.; Schwarcz, K.; Bajay, M.M.; Bajay, S.K.; Pinheiro, J. b.; Zucchi, M. I.; Pintér, A.; Labruna, M.B. Characterization of Genetic Variability and Population Structure of the Tick Amblyomma aureolatum (Acari: Ixodidae). Journal of medical entomology, 49, 2016

• Pintér, A.; Labruna, M.B. Isolation of Rickettsia rickettsii and Rickettsia bellii in Cell Culture from the Tick Amblyomma aureolatum in Brazil. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v. 1078, p. 523-529, 2006.

• Labruna, M.B.; Ogrzewalska, M.; Soares, J.F.; Martins, T.F.; Soares, H.S.; Nieri-Bastos, F.A.; Almeida, A.P.; Pintér, A. Experimental infection of Amblyomma aureolatum with Rickettsia rickettsii. Emerging Infectious Diseases, v. 17, p. 829-834, 2011

• Wijnveld M.; Schötta A.M.; Pintér, A.; Stockinger, H.; Stanek. G. Novel Rickettsia raoultii strain isolated and propagated from Austrian Dermacentor reticulatus ticks. Parasit Vectors. 3;9(1):567. 2016

Host: Michiel Wijnveld