Daniela Porea

Daniela Porea
Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development · Centre for the Study of Transborder and Emergent Diseases and Zoonoses

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Introduction
Daniela Porea currently works at Their most recent publication is 'First Record of West Nile Virus Specific Seroconversion in Dogs From Eastern Romania'.
Additional affiliations
October 2013 - February 2018
"Ion Ionescu de la Brad" Iasi University of Life Sciences
Position
  • PhD Student
Description
  • PhD Thesis “Epidemiological and Etiological Research on Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Wild Animals and Assessment of its Zoonotic Risk”

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Publications (30)
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WNV and USUV are closely related epornitic flaviviruses transmitted by Culex mosquitoes which can cause febrile and neurodegenerative disease in humans. The impact of both viruses on public health has increased in the recent decades. Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the seroprevalence of WNV and USUV in hospitalized patients from eastern R...
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Neospora caninum is an apicomplexan protozoa parasite that causes reproductive disorders in cattle worldwide. Despite the high seroprevalence reported in Romania, there are limited data on N. caninum infection in dairy cattle, and no studies have evaluated the presence of infection over time in a limited area. Therefore, this study aimed to assess...
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Program Nucleu: Program de cercetare științifică pentru dezvoltarea competențelor și capacităților de cercetare în domeniul sănătății și protecției mediului zonelor umede-"Delta Dunării 2030"
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bstract: In the Lower Danube River still spawn the last wild population of beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) living in the Black Sea. In the last century, this population has experienced severe declines in the need for adequate management plans for species conservation and recovery in the region. In this study samples of 90 young of the year beluga sturg...
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Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging zoonotic pathogen with different viral genera and species reported in a wide range of animals. Rodents, particularly rats, carry the specific genus rat HEV (Rocahepevirus genus, genotype C1) and are exposed occasionally to HEV-3 (Paslahepevirus genus, genotype 3), a zoonotic genotype identified in humans and w...
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The impact of mosquito-borne diseases on human and veterinary health is being exacerbated by rapid environmental changes caused mainly by changing climatic patterns and globalization. To gain insight into mosquito-borne virus circulation from two counties in eastern and southeastern Romania, we have used a combination of sampling methods in natural...
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bstract: Biodiversity assessment is crucial for evaluating the ecological status of freshwater ecosystems. Macroinvertebrates are one of the ecological indicators used for water quality assessment. In many cases, morphological identification of macroinvertebrates poses problems when different life stages need to be identified to the species level....
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Culex pipiens pipiens and Culex pipiens molestus mosquitoes are the vectors of West Nile virus in south-eastern Romania, an area of intense circulation and human transmission of this virus. The level of insecticide resistance for the mosquito populations in the region has not been previously assessed. Culex pipiens mosquitoes collected between 2018...
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1. Stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) is a species of great conservation concern throughout its range. Over the past century, it has experienced a dramatic decline in abundance and distribution in the Black Sea basin. Information regarding the genetic structure of the species is very limited in the region, despite its crucial importance for de...
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Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum are two closely related protozoan parasites that can cause reproductive disorders in ruminants. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of N. caninum and T. gondii infections in a dairy cattle farm in South-Eastern Romania. For this, a total of 157 blood samples from 84 dairy cows and 73 heif...
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Background In a countrywide study aiming to update the knowledge on diversity of sand fly species in Romania, a sand fly population was observed in an isolated system of cave microhabitats. The caves are located in the protected area of Canaraua Fetii, Dobrogea region, southeastern Romania. The highest sand fly diversity was recorded in this area b...
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Background In a countrywide study aiming to update the knowledge on diversity of sand fly species in Romania, a sand fly population was observed in an isolated system of cave microhabitats. The caves are located in the protected area of Canaraua Fetii, Dobrogea region, southeastern Romania. The highest sand fly diversity was recorded in this area b...
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The purpose of this research was to improve the epidemiological data on HEV infection in the human population in Romania. The analysis targeted hospitalized subjects with acute hepatitis (n = 94) of unknown etiology from the Infectious Diseases Regional Hospital in Iasi. Moreover, patients without liver disease (n = 40) from a different county hosp...
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The present study aimed at identifying Mycobacterium avium seroprevalence in wild boars (Sus scrofa) and red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) samples, from the Eastern region of Romania, by using an indirect ELISA assay. A total of 367 wild animal samples were collected from eight counties: 275 wild boars sera samples from Iasi (n=209), Botosani (n=11), Bacau...
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Waterfowls are considered to be the main natural source of avian influenza. The virus spreads at local, regional, continental and intercontinental levels via bird migration. There is a lot of information regarding infections in waterfowls and domestic birds, but little regarding other birds. Still, there is evidence of sensitivity and the importanc...
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Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has significantly impacted humans due to its potential to cause acute viral hepatitis. Discovery of hepatitis E virus in domestic pigs and wild boars worldwide and the realization that it is highly prevalent, raised concerns of the implications for food-borne transmission of HEV in Europe. Present work focusses on molecular...
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Waterfowl are considered to be the main natural source of avian influenza. The virus spreads at local, regional, continental and intercontinental levels via bird migration. There is a lot of information regarding infections in waterfowl and domestic birds, but little regarding other birds. Still, there is evidence of sensitivity and the importance...
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West Nile virus (WNV) infection causes diseases that vary in intensity from asymptomatic to fatal encephalitis in humans and animals. The etiological agent is a Flavivirus belonging to Japanesse Encephalitis complex. This zoonotic virus is maintained in nature in an enzootic cycle between mosquitoes and birds as amplifying hosts. Except birds, a wi...
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Ixodid ticks are competent vectors for multiple pathogens, several of which cause infections in human. The medical importance of tick-borne pathogens is well known, yet unanswered questions remain regarding the occurrence of pathogens such as Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and "Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis" in questing ticks in R...
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A serosurvey for Tahyna virus (TAHV), a mosquito-borne California encephalitis orthobunyavirus (Peribunyaviridae) endemic to Europe, was performed to estimate the activity of TAHV on a broad geographic scale. Sera from wild boar (Sus scrofa), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) were collected from Austria, Hungary and Roman...
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In industrialized countries, Hepatitis E is a recognized zoonosis, with wild boar and swine representing the main reservoirs for zoonotic genotype HEV-3 in Europe. Data related to HEV infection in wild boar population in Romania are restricted to serological surveys. Therefore, our main goal was to determine the HEV prevalence in wild boar populati...
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Identifying Borrelia burgdorferi as the causative agent of Lyme disease in 1981 was a watershed moment in understanding the major impact that tick-borne zoonoses can have on public health worldwide, particularly in Europe and the USA. The medical importance of tick-borne diseases has long since been acknowledged, yet little is known regarding the o...
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West Nile Virus (WNV) is the etiological agent of the WN fever/encephalitis, a re-emerging zoonosis signalled frequently in the last decades in the whole world. The virus can cause severe neurological disease in horses and humans but in many other species specific WNV seroconversion is signalled and may be an useful epidemiological tool. Wild anima...
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Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the causal agent of the hepatitis E transmitted primarily via the faecal-oral route. HEV belongs to the family Hepeviridae, with HEV strains isolated from human and swine classified into the Orthohepevirus genus Orthohepevirus A species. The disease is considered as an emerging zoonosis with worldwide distribution based o...
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The prevalence of the strains of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae is continuously increasing at the global level. The appearance of ESBL enzymes represents a danger for the efficacy of treatments with beta-lactam antibiotics (Măciucă I., 2015). The aim of the study resided in assessing the prevalence of ESBL-posi...
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There are expanding populations of wild boars (Sus scrofa) in almost all European countries including Romania. Free-living domestic, feral and wild swine have been implicated in the epidemiology of diseases affecting humans, livestock and wildlife. However, little information on prevalence and distribution of the viral infectious agents among wild...
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Lyme disease is a vector-borne disease caused by spirochetes from Borrelia burgdorferi complex transmitted by ticks. In Europe, the most common genospecies isolated from animals and humans are: Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia garinii and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto. Pathogens are transmitted by various species of genus Ixodes. In Europe, Ixodes r...
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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread zoonotic disease caused by a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family. Small ruminants with CCHF undergo a mild infection, sometimes with transient viraemia. Serum samples to test for CCHFV antibodies were collected from 90 small ruminants in various sites in Tulcea and Constanț...
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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread zoonotic disease caused by a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family. Small ruminants with CCHF undergo a mild infection, sometimes with transient viraemia. Serum samples to test for CCHFV antibodies were collected from 90 small ruminants in various sites in Tulcea and Constan?...

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