From October 2021 to today
Post-doc fellow at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna in the project "Multidisciplinary approach to the study of the urbanization of the Italian wolf (Canis lupus italicus)". Rep. N. 70/2021 Prot.n. 16128 of 06/10/2021 - Tutor Prof. Mauro Delogu.
From February 2023 to October 2023
TUTORING ACTIVITY - WILD AND EXOTIC FAUNA INTERNSHIP A.A. 2023/2024 - Study Course in Veterinary Medicine
Total hours: 35
Tutor: Prof. Mauro Delogu
Alma Mater Studiorum - School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Wildlife and Exotic Wildlife Teaching Tutor - CDS in Veterinary Medicine - A.A. 2023/2024 - Prot. n. 22480 del 24/12/2022
From February 2022 to October 2022
TUTORING ACTIVITY - WILD AND EXOTIC FAUNA INTERNSHIP A.A. 2022/2023 - Study Course in Veterinary Medicine
Total hours: 55
Tutor: Dr. Mauro Delogu
Alma Mater Studiorum - School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Wildlife and Exotic Wildlife Teaching Tutor - CDS in Veterinary Medicine - A.A. 2022/2023 - Prot. n. 21505 del 28/12/2021
From 1st November 2017 to 31st March 2021
PhD STUDENT - 33 ° CYCLE - A.A. 2017-2018
PhD in Veterinary Sciences - ANIMAL HEALTH Curriculum with project "CIRCULATION OF CANINE VIRUSES IN FREE-RANGING ITALIAN WOLVES (CANIS LUPUS ITALICUS) FROM THREE ITALIAN REGIONS". Wild and Exotic Wildlife Service, Tutor: Dr. Mauro Delogu.
From February 2020 to October 2020
TUTORING ACTIVITY - WILD AND EXOTIC FAUNA INTERNSHIP A.A. 2019/2020 - Study Course in Veterinary Medicine
Total hours: 45
Tutor: Dr. Mauro Delogu
Alma Mater Studiorum - School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Wildlife and Exotic Wildlife Teaching Tutor - CDS in Veterinary Medicine - A.A. 2019/2020 - Prot. No. 18404 of 18/12/2019
From April 2019 to October 2019
TUTORING ACTIVITY - WILD AND EXOTIC FAUNA INTERNSHIP A.A. 2018/2019 - Study Course in Veterinary Medicine
Total hours: 50
Tutor: Dr. Mauro Delogu
Alma Mater Studiorum - School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Wildlife and Exotic Wildlife Teaching Tutor - CDS in Veterinary Medicine - A.A. 2018/2019 - Rep. No. 155/2019 Prot. No. 2498 of 01/03/2019
From March 2018 to 31 October 2018
TUTORING ACTIVITY - WILD AND EXOTIC FAUNA INTERNSHIP A.A. 2017/2018 - Study Course in Veterinary Medicine
Total hours: 55
Tutor: Prof. Fabio Ostanello
Alma Mater Studiorum - School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Wildlife and Exotic Wildlife Teaching Tutor - CDS in Veterinary Medicine - A.A. 2017/2018 - notice prot. 61247 of 04/19/2018.
From May 2017 to July 2017
SELF-EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT - CO.CO.CO
Alma Mater Studiorum - Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences - SeFSE - Wildlife and Exotic Wildlife Service.
Tutor teacher: Dr. Mauro Delogu
Self-employment contract on the project "MONITORING OF THE WOLF STATE (Canis lupus) AND ITS HYBRID POTENTIALS IN TUSCANY AND EMILIA ROMAGNA" call rep. n. 37/217, prot. n. 1510 of 20/03/2017.
From February 2017 to October 2017
TUTORING ACTIVITY - WILD AND EXOTIC FAUNA INTERNSHIP A.A. 2016/2017 - Study Course in Veterinary Medicine
Total hours: 30
Tutor: Prof. Santino Prosperi
Alma Mater Studiorum - School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Wildlife and Exotic Wildlife Teaching Tutor - CDS in Veterinary Medicine - A.A. 2016/2017 - prot. 1084 of 11/21/2016.
From February 2017 to October 2017
TUTORING ACTIVITIES FOR THE WILD AND EXOTIC FAUNA INTERNSHIP A.A. 2016/2017 - Study Course in Veterinary Medicine
Total hours: 25
Tutor: Dr. Mauro Delogu
Alma Mater Studiorum - School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Wildlife and Exotic Wildlife Teaching Tutor - CDS in Veterinary Medicine - A.A. 2016/2017 - prot. 1084 of 11/21/2016.
From November 2016 to November 2017
POST-GRADUATED STUDENT AT THE WILD AND EXOTIC WILDLIFE SERVICE - SeFSE
Admitted among the DIMEVET Graduates attending for one year. Serial number 7372.
18th November 2016
QUALIFICATION DIPLOMA FOR THE PROFESSION OF VETERINARIAN
State Exam of professional qualification.
ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016
MSc IN VETERINARY MEDICINE, CLASS 47/S VETERINARY MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM.
Degree thesis "VIROLOGICAL SURVEYS INTEGRATED BY NON-INVASIVE GENETICS ON WOLF POPULATIONS (Canis lupus L.1758) IN THE TUSCAN-ROMAGNAN APENNINES IN THE PERIOD 2011-2016". Typology: experimental thesis. Supervisor: Dr. Mauro Delogu - Co-supervisors; Dr. Duccio Berzi, Dr. Claudia Cotti.
PUBLICATIONS
Carmela Musto, Jacopo Cerri, Dario Capizzi, Maria Cristina Fontana, Silva Rubini, Giuseppe Merialdi, Duccio Berzi, Francesca Ciuti, Annalisa Santi, Arianna Rossi, Filippo Barsi, Luca Gelmini, Laura Fiorentini, Giovanni Pupillo, Camilla Torreggiani, Alessandro Bianchi, Alessandra Gazzola, Paola Prati, Giovanni Sala, Marco Apollonio, Mauro Delogu, Alberto Biancardi, Laura Uboldi, Alessandro Moretti, Chiara Garbarino. Anticoagulant rodenticides are climbing the food chain to the top: a first proof of widespread positivity in grey wolves (Canis lupus). Science of the Total Environment, 2024, 915, 169990, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169990
Ana Moreno, Carmela Musto, Marco Gobbi, Giulia Maioli, Marika Menchetti, Tiziana Trogu, Marta Paniccià, Antonio Lavazza and Mauro Delogu. Detection and molecular analysis of Pseudorabies virus from free-ranging Italian wolves (Canis lupus italicus) in Italy - a case report. BMC Veterinary Research, 20, 9 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-023-03857-0
Musto, C.; Tamba, M.; Calzolari, M.; Rossi, A.; Grisendi, A.; Marzani, K.; Bonilauri, P.; Delogu, M. Detection of West Nile and Usutu Virus RNA in Autumn Season in Wild Avian Hosts in Northern Italy. Viruses 2023, 15, 1771. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15081771
J. Cerri, C. Musto, F. M. Stefanini, U. Di Nicola, N. Riganelli, M. C. Fontana, A. Rossi, C. Garbarino, G. Merialdi, F. Ciuti, D. Berzi, M. Delogu and M. Apollonio. A human-neutral large carnivore? No patterns in the body mass of gray wolves (Canis lupus) across a gradient of anthropization. PLoS One, 2023, 10.1371/journal.pone.0282232
Arianna Rossi, Annalisa Santi, Filippo Barsi, Gabriele Casadei, Alessandra Di Donato, Maria Cristina Fontana, Giorgio Galletti, Chiara Anna Garbarino, Annalisa Lombardini, Carmela Musto, Alice Prosperi, Giovanni Pupillo, Gianluca Rugna, Marco Tamba. Eleven years of health monitoring in wild boars (Sus scrofa) in the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy). Animals 2023, 13, 1832. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13111832
Taddei, R., Bregoli, A., Galletti, G., Carra, E., Fiorentini, L., Fontana, M.C., Frasnelli, M., Musto, C., Pupillo, G., Reggiani, A., Santi, A., Rossi, A., Tamba, M., Calzolari, M., Rugna, G., 2022. Wildlife Hosts of Leishmania Infantum in a Re-Emerging Focus of Human Leishmaniasis, in Emilia-Romagna, Northeast Italy. Pathogens, 11, 1308. https://doi.org/10.3390/ pathogens11111308
C. Musto, J. Cerri, E. Manieri Sentimenti, M. Delogu. Evaluation of limiting factors of Oral Rabies Vaccinations (ORV) in wild canids, evidence from a field trial in Central Italy. Hystrix, 2022. DOI: 10.4404/hystrix-00517-2021
C. Musto, M. Tamba, M. Calzolari, D. Torri, K. Marzani, J. Cerri, P. Bonilauri, M. Delogu. USUTU VIRUS IN BLACKBIRDS (Turdus merula) WITH NEUROLOGICAL SIGNS, A CASE STUDY FROM NORTHERN ITALY. European Journal Wildlife Research, 2022, 68:23, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-022-01572-z [paper]
C. Musto, E. Carra, M.C. Fontana, G. Merialdi, R. Caniglia, E. Fabbri, A. Balboni, M. Battilani, A. Siclari, F. Ciuti, G. Mancuso, C. Riverso, G. Lucifora and M. Delogu. THE CANINE ADENOVIRUS TYPE 2 (CAdV-2) IN ITALIAN WOLVES (Canis lupus italicus): A PRELIMINARY STUDY. Hystrix, 2021, 32(2):1–3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00448-2021 [paper]
C. Musto, J. Cerri, M. Galaverni, R. Caniglia, E. Fabbri, M. Apollonio, N. Mucci, P. Bonilauri, G. Maioli, M.C. Fontana, L. Gelmini, A. Prosperi, A. Rossi, C.A. Garbarino, G. Tosi, F. Ciuti, D. Berzi, G. Merialdi, M. Delogu. Men and wolves: anthropogenic causes are an important driver of wolf mortality in human-dominated landscapes in Italy. Global Ecology and Conservation 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01892 [paper]
A. Balboni, L. Urbani, M. Delogu, C. Musto, M. C. Fontana, G. Merialdi, G. Lucifora, A. Terrusi, F. Dondi, M. Battilani. Integrated use of molecular techniques to detect and genetically characterise DNA viruses in Italian wolves (Canis lupus italicus). Animals 2021, 11(8), 2198; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11082198 [paper]
D. Berzi, J. Cerri, C. Musto, M.L. Zanni. Use Of European Funds and Ex-post Evaluation of Prevention Measures against Wolf Attacks (Canis Lupus Italicus) In the Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy). Animals 2021, 11(6), 1536; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11061536 [Paper]
Carmela Musto, Romolo Caniglia, Elena Fabbri, Marco Galaverni, Noemi Romagnoli, Stefania Pinna, Elisa Berti, Marzia Naldi, Emanuela Bologna, Luigi Molinari, Sara Del Magno, Mauro Delogu. CONSERVATION AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL: SUCCESSFUL REHABILITATION AND POST-RELEASE MONITORING OF AN ITALIAN WOLF (Canis lupus italicus) INJURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT. Vet. arhiv 90 (2), 205-212, 2020. DOI: 10.24099/vet.arhiv.0727 [Paper]
Rubini S., Faggionato E., Biancardi A., Merialdi G., Merenda M., Massi P., Frasnelli M., Garbarino C.A., Gelmini L., Luppi A., Cotti C., Musto C., Delogu M., Talarico A., Gaudio R.M., Frisoni P., Strano Rossi S., Locatelli C.A., Mazzariol S. WILDLIFE POISONING IN EMILIA ROMAGNA REGION (ITALY): A 10-YEARS-SURVEY. CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY, 2019, 57, pp. 423 - 602 [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Abstract]
Andrea Balboni, Carmela Musto, Elisa Kaehler, Ranieri Verin, Romolo Caniglia, Elena Fabbri, Elena Carra, Claudia Cotti, Mara Battilani, and Mauro Delogu. Genetic characterization of canine adenovirus type 1 detected by real-time polymerase chain reaction in an oral sample of a wolf (Canis lupus). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 2019, 55;3:737–741. DOI: 10.7589/2018-08-206 [Paper]
Andrea Balboni, Carmela Musto, Elisa Kaehler, Elena Fabbri, Romolo Caniglia, Elena Carra, Mara Battilani and Mauro Delogu. GENETIC CHARACTERISATION OF CANINE ADENOVIRUS TYPE 1 DETECTED IN THE TONGUE OF A WOLF. In: LXXII Congresso S.I.S.Vet,XVII Convegno S.I.C.V., XVI Convegno S.I.R.A.,XV Convegno A.I.P.Vet, X Convegno ARNA, Giornata studio So.Fi.Vet., V Convegno R.N.I.V., 20-22 giugno 2018. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Poster]
Mauro Delogu, Carmela Musto, Claudia Cotti. VETERINARY MEDICINE AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL AND CONSERVATION: ASPECTS AND PERSPECTIVES. VIII Convegno Nazionale della Ricerca nei Parchi, Bussolengo (VR) dal 28 settembre al 1 ottobre 2017. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Oral communication]
Carmela Musto, Romolo Caniglia, Elena Fabbri, Marco Galaverni, Claudia Cotti, Francesca Ciuti, Duccio Berzi, Mauro Delogu. CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE APENNINE WOLF (Canis lupus) AND HYBRID: INVESTIGATION ON 48 INDIVIDUALS FROM 2011 TO 2017. VIII Convegno Nazionale della Ricerca nei Parchi, Bussolengo (VR) dal 28 settembre al 1 ottobre 2017. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Oral communication]
Carmela Musto, Duccio Berzi, Tommaso Sandri, Claudia Cotti, R. Caniglia, M. Galaverni, E. Fabbri, E. Randi, Mauro Delogu. GENETIC AND HEALTH MONITORING OF THE WOLF (Canis lupus) ASSOCIATED WITH INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION. VII Convegno Nazionale della Ricerca nei Parchi, Bussolengo (VR) dal 1 al 4 ottobre 2016. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Oral communication]
Claudia Cotti, Carmela Musto, Mauro Delogu. DETECTION OF AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS IN GIZZARD CONTENT OF A NOT-INFECTED GREBE (Podiceps cristatus). VII Convegno Nazionale della Ricerca nei Parchi, Bussolengo (VR) dal 1 al 4 ottobre 2016. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Poster]
Laura Starvaggi Cucuzza, Frine Eleonora Scaglione, Claudia Cotti, Isabella Piredda, Antòn David Pérez- Rodríguez, Enrico Bollo, Carmela Musto, Paola Pregel, Francesca Tiziana Cannizzo and Mauro Delogu. BIOMOLECULAR INVESTIGATION ON PREVALENCE OF AVIAN MALARIA IN COMMON KESTREL (Falco tinnunculus) IN EMILIA ROMAGNA (ITALY). In: LXX Convegno S.I.S.VetXVI Convegno S.I.C.V. - XIV Convegno S.I.R.A.XIII Convegno A.I.P.Vet - XIII Giornata studio So.Fi.Vet. - III Convegno R.N.I.V., pag. 385-386. 13-16 giugno 2016. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Oral communication]
Romolo Caniglia, Marco Galaverni, Mauro Delogu, Elena Fabbri, Carmela Musto, Ettore Randi. BIG BAD WOLF OR MAN’S BEST FRIEND? UNMASKING A FALSE WOLF AGGRESSION ON HUMANS. Forensic Science International: Genetics 24 (2016), e-4 - e-6. [Paper]
M. Delogu, M.A. De Marco, E. Raffini, C. Cotti, C. Musto, M. Frasnelli, I. Donatelli. CAN DUCKS WITH SUBTYPE-SPECIFIC PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY AND WITHOUT ENTERIC SHEDDING, ALLOW INFLUENZA INFECTION OF OTHER DUCKS? In: 8th International Symposium on Avian Influenza – Avian Influenza in Poultry and Wild Birds. p. 39-40, LONDON: Animal health and veterinary laboratories agency, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 1-4 April, 2012. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Oral communication]
M. Frasnelli, De Marco M. A., C. Cotti, G. Ghetti, I. Piredda, C. Musto, V. Corazzari, M. Zanoni, S. Tagliabue, M. Pacciarini, E. Raffini, M. Delogu. ISOLAMENTO DI MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM ED ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE IN CINGHIALI (Sus scrofa scrofa) NEL NORD ITALIA. VI° Workshop Nazionale di Epidemiologia Veterinaria pag. 91-92. 1-2 Dicembre 2011. Orvieto. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Poster]
De Marco M. A., C. Cotti, G. Ghetti, I. Piredda, C. Musto, E. Raffini, V. Corazzari, M. Frasnelli, I. Donatelli, M. Delogu. EVIDENZA SIEROLOGICA DI INFEZIONE DA VIRUS DELL’INFLUENZA A IN UNA POPOLAZIONE DI CINGHIALI (Sus scrofa scrofa) DEL NORD ITALIA. VI° Workshop Nazionale di Epidemiologia Veterinaria pag. 81-82. 1-2 Dicembre 2011. Orvieto. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Poster]
De Marco M. A., C. Cotti, G. Ghetti, I. Piredda, C. Musto, E. Raffini, M. Frasnelli, I. Donatelli, M. Delogu. ANTIBODIES TO INFLUENZA A VIRUS IN EUROPEAN WILD BOARS (Sus scrofa scrofa) FROM NORTHERN ITALY. 6th European Meeting on Viral Zoonoses, pag. 83. 1- 4 Ottobre 2011. Saint-Raphaël, Francia. [Contributions in Conference Proceedings - Poster]
