Guillermo R. Risatti, DVM, PhD

Specialties and Expertise

  • Virology; Animal health; Disease diagnosis and prevention

Education

  • DVM: Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina
  • MS: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • PhD: University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Postdoc: Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Select Awards, Achievements, and Publications

  • Markosyan T, Sargsyan K, . . . , Risatti GR. The epidemiological status of African swine fever in domestic swine herds in the Tavush Province region, Armenia. Rev Sci Tech. 2019;38(3):751-760.
  • Vepkhvadze NG, Menteshashvili I, . . . , Risatti GR. Active surveillance of African swine fever in domestic swine herds in Georgia, 2014. Rev Sci Tech. 2017;36(3):879-887.
  • Borca MV, Holinka-Patterson LG, Gladue D, Risatti GR, O'Donnell VK, inventors. USDA and University of Connecticut, assignees. Rationally developed African swine fever attenuated virus strain protects against challenge with parental virus Georgia 2007 isolate. US patent 9,808,520. 2017.
  • Borca MV, Holinka-Patterson LG, Gladue D, Risatti GR, O'Donnell VK, inventors. USDA and University of Connecticut, assignees. Attenuated African swine fever virus vaccine based in the deletion of MGF genes. US patent 9,528,094. 2016.
  • Borca MV, Holinka Patterson LG, Risatti G, inventors. USDA and University of Connecticut, assignees. Live attenuated antigenically marked classical swine fever vaccine. US patent 9,352,032. 2016.

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