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Manuela Calado

Assistant Professor

GHTM Group: VBD PhD members, Vector-borne diseases

ResearchTop 5 Publications

Her main research activities in recent years have focused on the study of freshwater snails, intermediate hosts of trematodes diseases, in particular on molecular characterization, genetic variability and geographical distribution in Portugal and other geographical areas, as well, the influence of climate and environmental change on the snail’s populations distribution.

The development of molecular tools applied to the molecular epidemiology of helminth infections transmitted by molluscs (schistosomiasis, fasciolosis) and vector transmission (lymphatic filariasis and heartworm disease, including Wolbachia,) has also been the object of study.

  1. Bravo-Barriga D, Parreira R, Almeida APG, Calado M, Blanco-Ciudad J, Serrano-Aguilera FJ, Pérez-Martín JE,  Sánchez-Peinado  J,  Pinto  J,  Reina D,  Frontera  E .(2016). Culex pipiens as a potential vector for  transmission  of Dirofilaria  immitis  and  other  unclassified  Filarioidea  in  Southwest  Spain ,Veterinary  Parasitology,  223:  173-180
  2. De Pinho Mixão V, Mendes AM, Maurício IL, Calado MM, Novo MT, Belo S, Almeida APG. (2016.). Molecular detection of Wolbachia pipientis in natural populations of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis from  continental  Portugal: first  detection  in  Culex  theileri   Medical and Veterinary  Entomology,  30:  301-309
  3. Ferreira C, Mixão V, Novo T, Calado M, Gonçalves L, Belo S, Almeida AP (2015). First molecular identification of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis in continental Portugal. Parasites & Vectors, 8:139 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0760-2
  4. Landum, M., Ferreira, C., Calado, M., Alho, A.M., Mauricio, I., Meireles, J.S., Madeira de Carvalho, L., Cunha, C. & Belo, S., (2014). Detection of Wolbachia in Dirofilaria infected dogs in Portugal. Veterinary Parasitology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.05.027
  5. Beato, S., Parreira, R., Calado, M., & Gracio, M.A.A(2010). Apparent dominance of the G1-G3 cluster of Echinococcus garnulosus strains in the central inland region of Portugal. Parasitology International, 59: 638-642

 

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