Julio Álvarez Sánchez
Qualifications:
PhD in Veterinary Sciences
Diploma de Estudios Avanzados
Degree in Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
Contact
VISAVET, Health Surveillance Centre
Universidad Complutense
Av. Puerta de Hierro s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain
e-mail:
Telephone: (+34) 91 394 3992
Fax: (+34) 91 394 3795
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.
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
Next scientific publications:
- Machado G., Korennoy FI., Alvarez J., Picasso C., Perez A. and VanderWaal K.. Mapping changes in the spatiotemporal distribution of lumpy skin disease virus. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 66(5):2045-2057. (A)
- Alvarez J., Lopez-Perez G., Muellner P., De Frutos C., Ahistrom C., Serrano T., Moreno MA., Duran M., Saez JL., Dominguez L. and Ugarte-Ruiz M.. Identifying emerging trends in antimicrobial resistance using Salmonella surveillance data in poultry in Spain. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. (A)
- Van Hattem J.M., Cabal A., Arcilla M.S., Alvarez J., de Jong M.D., Melles D.C., Penders J., COMBAT Consortium., Gortazar C. and Schultsz C.. Risk of acquisition of human diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli virulence genes in intercontinental travellers: a prospective, multi-centre study Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. (A)
- Bueno I., Travis D., Gonzalez-Rocha G., Alvarez J., Lima C., Garcia-Benitez C., Phelps NBD., Wass B., Johnson TJ., Zhang Q., Ishii S. and Singer RS.. Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Freshwater Trout Farms in a Watershed in Chile. Journal of Environmental Quality. (A)
Last scientific publications:
- Picasso C., Perez A., Gil A., Nunez A., Salaberry X., Suanses A. and Alvarez J.. Modeling the Accuracy of Two in-vitro Bovine Tuberculosis Tests Using a Bayesian Approach. Frontiers in veterinary science, 6:261. 2019. (A)
- Vilalta C., Baker J., Sanhueza J., Murray D., Sponheim A., Alvarez J., Sylvia F., Polson D., Torremorell M., Corzo C. and Morrison RB.. Effect of litter aggregation and pooling on detection of porcine reproductive and respiratory virus in piglet processing fluids. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation , 31(4):625-628. 2019. (A)
- Casanova-Higes A., Marin-Alcala CM., Andres-Barranco S., Cebollada-Solanas A., Alvarez J. and Mainar-Jaime RC.. Weaned piglets: another factor to be considered for the control of Salmonella infection in breeding pig farms. Veterinary Research, 50:45. 2019. (A)
- Kanankege KST., Abdrakhmanov SK., Alvarez J., Glaser L., Bender JB., Mukhanbetkaliyev YY., Korennoy FI., Kadyrov AS., Abdrakhmanova AS. and Perez AM.. Comparison of spatiotemporal patterns of historic natural Anthrax outbreaks in Minnesota and Kazakhstan. PLoS ONE, 14(5):e0217144. 2019. (A)
- Whitten T., Brayshaw G., Patnayak D., Alvarez J., Larson CM., Root-Kustritz M., Holzbauer SM., Torrison J. and Scheftel J.. Seroprevalence of Brucella canis antibodies in dogs entering a Minnesota humane society, Minnesota, 2016-2017. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 168:90-94. 2019. (A)
Last PhD thesis supervised:
- Mª Luisa de la Cruz Conty. Application of quantitative analytic methods for the epidemiological study of zoonotic diseases. 2018.
- Teresa García-Seco Romero. Epidemiology of Q fever in domestic ruminants in the central zone of the Iberian peninsula. 2017.
- Adriana Cabal Rosel. Distribución, cuantificación y caracterización de genes de virulencia de Escherichia coli en reservorios animales, humanos y medioambientales. 2016.(Internacional)
- Carmen Casal Comendador. Diagnosis of tuberculosis in ruminants and camelids: optimization of cell-based and humoral tests. 2016.(Laboratorios Ovejero Award, PhD Extraordinary Award, Europea)
- Marta Pérez Sancho. Aplicación de nuevas estrategias en el diagnóstico y profilaxis de la brucelosis producida por Brucella melitensis en rumiantes domésticos. 2014.(Mención Europea)
Outreach
Last outreach publications:
- Alvarez J. and Ruiz-Fons F.. Aplicaciones de la epidemiología en el control del PRRS. Monográficos, Grupo Asis. 2019.
- Vilalta C., Sanhueza J., Torremorell M., Corzo C., Morrison R., Alvarez J. and Murray D.. Tail docking, castration: Prime time for PRRS tests. National Hog Farmer, Informa USA. 2018.
- Briones V., Bezos J. and Alvarez J.. Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria: concepto y actualización. Profesión Veterinaria, 91(2018/19):20-23, Colegio Oficial de Veterinarios de Madrid. 2018.
- Alvarez J., Bezos J., Diez-Guerrier A., Gonzalez S. and Saez JL.. Manual de detección de animales infectados anérgicos en explotaciones T2 de riesgo o con antecedentes de tuberculosis. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (MAPA) y Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). UCM.. 2018.
- Cabal A., Garcia-Castillo M., Canton R., Gortazar C., Dominguez L. and Alvarez J.. Prevalence of Escherichia coli virulence genes in patients with diarrhea and a subpopulation of healthy volunteers in Madrid, Spain. Applications of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) tools in microbiology of infectious diseases. Ed. 1. Frontiers. 2017.
Last communications:
- Tiwari SK., Van der Puten B., Vinh TN., Bootsma M., La Ragione R., Matamoros S., Ngo Thi H., Berens C., Leng J., Alvarez J., Jolivet D., Ferrandis-Vila M., Ritchie J., Fruth A., Schwarz S., Dominguez L., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Bethe A., Wieler LH., Ewers C., Fivian-Hughes AS., Menge C., Schultsz C. and Semmler T.. Genomic analysis reveals varyng degrees of host adaptation in Escherichia coli. 29th ECCMID. 2019. (Oral communication)
- Alvarez J.. Cuando el tamaño importa: "big data" en el mundo de las ciencias veterinarias. Seminarios metodológicos en Ciencias Biomédicas y experimentales. Principios y aplicaciones. 2019. (Oral communication)
- Lopez-Chavarrias V., Teng KT., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Moreno MA., Lopez G., Dominguez L. and Alvarez J.. Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance in Campylobacter coli from Broilers and Pigs in Spain from 2002 to 2015. 1st One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2019. (Oral communication)
- Pozo P., Robbe-Austerman S., Saez JL., Stuber T., Hicks J., Romero B., de Juan L. and Alvarez J.. Genetic Diversity of a Prevalent Mycobacterium bovis Spoligotype at the Cattle-Wildlife Interface in Spain. 1st One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2019. (Oral communication)
- Alvarez J.. Moving beyond descriptive epidemiology. CAHFS News. 2019. (Web interview)
