Keywords:
Avian diseases
Avian virology
Avian Immunosuppressive diseases
Avian Respiratory diseases
Avian viral neoplastic diseases
Avian Vaccines
Molecular epidemiology
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
all fields of the poultry diseases. In particular: viral respiratory and immunosuppresive infections like Avian metapneumovirus, Infectious bronchitis, Newcastle disease, Infectious Bursal Disease viruses, haemorragic entritis of turkey. Molecular epidemiology, pathogenicity in vivo studies, in vivo evaluation of safety and efficacy of live attenuated traditional and new generation vaccines, investigation of mechanisms of reversion to virulence of live vaccines and field virus evolution, development and testing of avian metapneumovirus recombinant vaccines for the expression of surface heterologous proteins.
