VISAVET | Julio Álvarez Sánchez

Contact

Management
VISAVET, Health Surveillance Centre
Universidad Complutense
Av. Puerta de Hierro s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain

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Telephone: (+34) 91 394 3992

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Biography

After defending my PhD in 2008, focused on different aspects of the epidemiology of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis in Spain, I served as the head of the unit of neglected and emerging diseases in the VISAVET Health Surveillance Center, Spain, for two years, and then held two post-doctoral positions at the Spanish wildlife research institute (IREC) of Ciudad Real, Spain, and at the Research Institute Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS) focusing on the epidemiology of bacterial zoonotic diseases in wildlife and humans. After this I joined the University of Minnesota in 2014, first as a research associate and then as an assistant professor, and came back to VISAVET in 2018 with a Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral contract. My research is currently focused on the application of quantitative approaches for the study of the epidemiology of infectous diseases in the human-animal-environmental interface.

I have co-authored over 100 papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, being first or last author in 36 of them; I have acted as PhD advisor of four students in the last 5 years, and currently act as scientific advisor of the European Laboratory for Bovine Tuberculosis, as well as a scientific reviewer for 12 indexed scientific journals.

Investigation

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Next scientific publications:

Teunis G., Dallman TJ., Zajac M., Skarzynska M., Petrovska L., Pista A., Silveira L., Clemente L., Thepault A., Bonifait L., Kerouanton A., Chemaly M., Alvarez J., Soderlund R., Moller-Nielsen E., Chattaway M., Burgess K., Byrne W., van den Beld M., Hendrickx APA., Franz E., Pires S., Hald T. and Mughini-Gras L.. Attributable sources of the five most prevalent non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars across ten European countries. The Journal of infection. (A)
Gómez-Buendía A., Yessembekova G., Kadyrov A., Mukhanbetkaliyev Y., Cervino-Luridiana E., Alvarez J., Perez AM. and Abdrakhmanov SK.. A time-space Bayesian regression model of rabies cases in the animal population of Kazakhstan (2013-2023). Frontiers in veterinary science. (A)

Last scientific publications:

Leng J., Ferrandis-Vila M., Oldenkamp R., Mehat JW., Fivian-Hughes A., Kumar-Tiwari S., Van der Putten B., Trung-Nguyen V., Bethe A., Clark J., Singh P., Semmler T., Schwarz S., Alvarez J., Hoa NT., Bootsma M., Menge C., Berens C., Schultsz C., Ritchie JM. and La Ragione R.. Evidence of ESBL plasmid transfer and selective persistence of multiple host-associated Escherichia coli isolates in a chicken cecal fermentation model. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 91(10):e0082225. 2025. (A)
Gómez-Buendía A., Triguero-Ocana R., Pozo P., Munoz-Mendoza M., Alvarez-Fidalgo M., Mourelo J., Romero B. and Alvarez J.. Abattoir Surveillance: Identifying Risk Factors Associated with Bovine Tuberculosis Lesion Detection in a Low Prevalence Region. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 246:106710. 2025. (A)
Velasco-Reinaldos C., Ortega J., Alvarez J., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Moreno JC., Sanz C., Romero B., de Juan L., Dominguez L., Dominguez M., Moreno I., Roy A. and Bezos J.. Field evaluation of the P22 ELISA for diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis in an endemic area. Frontiers in veterinary science, 125. 2025. (A)
Lorente-Leal V., Pozo P., Bezos J., Collado S., Vicente J., Stuber T., Alvarez J., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Revisiting Mycobacterium bovis SB0121 genetic diversity reflects the complexity behind bovine tuberculosis persistence in Spain. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 239:106519. 2025. (A)
Samper-Cativiela C., Torre-Fuentes L., Bernabé Diéguez B., Maex M., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Carrizo-Coronado P., Hernandez M., Hofle U., Saez-Llorente JL., De Frutos C., Aguero M., Moreno MA., Dominguez L., Herrera-Leon S. and Alvarez J.. Molecular epidemiology of Salmonella Enteritidis in humans and animals in Spain. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 69(4):e0073824. 2025. (A)