Luigi Gradoni
Luigi Gradoni is Research Director of MIPI Department (Malattie Infettive, Parassitarie ed Immunomediate) at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome. Dr. Gradoni is one of the main international expert of sand fly and sand fly-leishmania interactions. With his help we are performing nucleic acid extractions, developmental analyses and field test on Phlebotomus perniciosus.
Recent publications
- Viral isolates of a novel putative phlebovirus in the Marche Region of Italy. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Apr;90(4):760-3.
- Epidemiological surveillance of leishmaniasis in the European Union: operational and research challenges. Euro Surveill. 2013 Jul 25;18(30):20539.
- Vaccination with LiESP/QA-21 (CaniLeish®) reduces the intensity of infection in Phlebotomus perniciosus fed on Leishmania infantum infected dogs—a preliminary xenodiagnosis study. Vet Parasitol. 2013 Nov 8;197(3-4):691-5.
- Phlebotomine sandflies and the spreading of leishmaniases and other diseases of public health concern. Med Vet Entomol. 2013 Jun;27(2):123-47.
- Predicting the distribution of canine leishmaniasis in western Europe based on environmental variables. Parasitology. 2011 Dec;138(14):1878-91.