Dr. Walter U. Basso

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsAnimal Breeding, Animal Nutrition, Animal Husbandry,Medical Microbiology and Mycology, Hygiene, Molecular Infection Biology
KeywordsParasitologie, Neospora caninum, Molekulare Charakterisierung, Rinderaborte, Diagnostik

Current contact address

CountryArgentina
CityLa Plata
InstitutionUniversidad Nacional de La Plata
InstituteFacultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Laboratorio de Inmunoparasitologia

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Gereon ScharesInstitut für Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit, Wusterhausen
Prof. Dr. Franz J. ConrathsInstitut für Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit, Wusterhausen
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2007

Programme(s)

2007Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2009Walter Basso, Daland C. Herrmann, Franz J. Conraths, Nikola Pantchev, Majda Globokar Vrhovec, Gereon Schares: First isolation of Neospora caninum from the faeces of a dog from Portugal. In: Veterinary Parasitology, 2009, 162-166
2009Walter Basso, Gastón More´, María A. Quiroga, Lais Pardini, Diana Bacigalupe, Lucila Venturini, María C. Valenzuela, Diego Balducchi, Pavlo Maksimov, Gereon Schares, María C. Venturini: Isolation and molecular characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from captive slender-tailed meerkats (Suricata suricatta) with fatal toxoplasmosis in Argentina. In: Veterinary Parasitology, 2009, 201-206
2009Walter Basso, Susann Schares, Andrea Bärwald, Daland C. Herrmann, Franz J. Conraths, Nikola Pantchev, Majda Globokar Vrhovec, Gereon Schares: Molecular comparison of Neospora caninum oocyst isolates from naturally infected dogs with cell culture-derived tachyzoites of the same isolates using nested polymerase chain reaction to amplify microsatellite markers. In: Veterinary Parasitology, 2009, 43-50