Olga Svetlana MunozUniversity of Florida | UF · One Health Center of Excellence
Olga Svetlana Munoz
Doctor in Veterinay Medicine; MSc One Healh (Infectious Diseases); PhD in Public Health (One Health)
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26
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Introduction
I have worked and studied in different locations (Italy, the UK, and the US), which has rendered me quite flexible and curious. I am particularly interested in human factors related to the emergence and distribution of zoonoses and in applying epidemiology and qualitative research to study these factors. I am interested in social networks of collaboration.
Additional affiliations
December 2016 - August 2017
March 2015 - November 2016
Position
- Responsible of the Research, Development and Innovation Department, Northern Region
September 2013 - September 2014
Royal Veterinary College- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Position
- MSc Student One Health (Infectious Diseases)
Description
- Research on the zoonotic potential of Giardia lamblia and Ascaris suum
Education
September 2013 - September 2014
Royal Veterinary College- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Field of study
- One Health (Infectious Diseases)
October 2005 - March 2011
Publications
Publications (26)
SARS-CoV-2 has clearly shown that efficient management of infectious diseases requires a top-down approach which must be complemented with a bottom-up response to be effective. Here we investigate a novel approach to surveillance for transboundary animal diseases using African Swine (ASF) fever as a model. We collected data both at a population lev...
African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious disease with high mortality in domestic and feral swine populations. Although it is not a zoonosis, its spread may have severe socio-economic and public health consequences. The activities of veterinary services are essential for controlling ASF outbreaks within a country, but also for diminishing its threa...
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) has been in use since 2012 and is widely recognized as one of the most rigorous tools to measure women's empowerment as a direct or indirect result of interventions from development projects. Changes to the WEAI have been ongoing and recent adaptations include measuring effects of interventions to...
Objective:
The aim of this study was to detect potential animal reservoirs ofE. coli carrying mcr-1 gene in and Ecuadorian household.
Methods:
Colistin-resistant gene, mcr-1, was first detected in Ecuador in a commensal E. coli isolate from a boy. A cross sectional study was performed to detect the possible source of colistin-resistant E. coli i...
In recent years, there has been an increasing risk of hematophagous bat attacks in Latin America, where livestock production is a basic source of food for local populations. In Ecuador, livestock represented an important part of agricultural output. Some cases of cattle bitten by bats in the province of Santa Elena have been reported; however, no p...
During the past ten years, an increasing number of arbovirus outbreaks have affected tropical islands worldwide. We examined the available literature in peer-reviewed journals, from the second half of the 20th century until 2018, with the aim of gathering an overall picture of the emergence of arboviruses in these islands. In addition, we included...
The One Health Center at the University of Florida aims to bring the One Health concept to a novel dimension: the One Health 2.0 vision. We are embracing the broad array of different lenses of focus by expanding the disciplines and topics engaging with One Health. The Center, which was officially approved in December 2017, is engaged in two fronts...
Drivers and risk factors for Influenza A virus transmission across species barriers are poorly understood, despite the ever present threat to human and animal health potentially on a pandemic scale. Here we review the published evidence for epidemiological risk factors associated with influenza viruses transmitting between animal species and from a...
Salmonella Typhi es el patógeno causante de la fiebre tifoidea que provoca infecciones en aproximadamente 120 millones de personas y más de 700.000 muertes cada año. El tratamiento antimicrobiano disminuye las complicaciones, sin embargo el desarrollo rápido de mecanismos de resistencia al tratamiento empírico es un problema emergente, reportándose...
The scientific understanding of the driving factors behind zoonotic and pandemic influenzas is hampered by complex interactions between viruses, animal hosts and humans. This complexity makes identifying influenza viruses of high zoonotic or pandemic risk, before they emerge from animal populations, extremely difficult and uncertain. As a first ste...
In December 2011, the European Food Safety Authority awarded a Grant for the implementation of the FLURISK project. The main objective of FLURISK was the development of an epidemiological and virological evidence-based influenza risk assessment framework (IRAF) to assess influenza A virus strains circulating in the animal population according to th...
A survey of national animal influenza surveillance programmes was conducted to assess the current capacity to detect influenza viruses with zoonotic potential in animals (i.e. those influenza viruses that can be naturally transmitted between animals and humans) at regional and global levels. Information on 587 animal influenza surveillance system c...
Interspecies transmission may play a key role in the evolution and ecology of influenza A viruses. The importance of marine mammals as hosts or carriers of potential zoonotic pathogens such as highly pathogenic H5 and H7 influenza viruses is not well understood. The fact that influenza viruses are some of the few zoonotic pathogens known to have ca...
Factors that trigger human infection with animal influenza virus progressing into a pandemic are poorly understood. Within a project developing an evidence-based risk assessment framework for influenza viruses in animals, we conducted a review of the literature for evidence of human infection with animal influenza viruses by diagnostic methods used...
In recent years, special attention has been paid to real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for avian metapneumovirus (AMPV) diagnosis, due to its numerous advantages over classical PCR. A new multiplex quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) with molecular beacon probe assay, designed to target the SH gene, was developed. The...
The real and perceived impact of influenza infections in animals has changed dramatically over the last 10 years, due mainly to the better understanding of the public health implications of avian and swine influenza viruses. On a number of occasions in the last decade avian-to-human transmissions of H5, H7 and H9 virus subtypes have occurred, and t...
The fact that an influenza virus of swine origin unexpectedly became the most recent human pandemic
virus and that a low pathogenicity avian influenza virus H7N9 is currently causing human health
concerns in Asia highlights deficiencies in current influenza pandemic preparedness. With the aim to
systematically assess the potential public health thr...
The combined administration of Newcastle disease (ND) and avian metapneumovirus (AMPV) live vaccines in turkey hatcheries is advantageous, but compatibility has not yet been experimentally demonstrated. To investigate any possible interference between the two vaccines, AMPV subtype B live vaccine strain VCO3 was given to one d old turkeys either al...
Questions
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Research project on possible vector-borne diseases spread by capybaras
Projects
Projects (4)
VirNAA is a project that aims to build a digital surveillance system to monitor unreliable or false news and support the management of epidemic diseases affecting the agro-food system. In some cases, epidemic diseases of animals and plants are subjected to compulsory notification and require a series of procedures to implement national and international guidelines. Some of these crises can be linked to foodborne infections, and/or create consumer mistrust and/or great economic losses. The digital environment has empowered nonprofessionals and stakeholders to amplify messages coming from the local or extended community and express their views on the way the crises are being managed. When these statements become viral they have a major impact on the local community and on how it reacts to restriction or control measures. The spread of messages of mistrust in institutions or perplexities on the efficacy of the implementation strategies, could be the trigger to episodes of turmoil and nullify the efforts to contain or manage the crises.
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