Michele Drigo was borne 29.03.1976 in Padua, Italy.
July 2001: Degree in Veterinary Medicine at Padua University with the thesis “Aujeszky Disease: evaluation of the ongoing National Control Programme”.
January 2002 – December 2004: PhD in " Public Health, Veterinary and Animal Production Hygiene”, University of Padua, Department of Public Health, Comparative Pathology and Veterinary Hygiene. Final dissertation on: “Geographic Information Systems and spatial analysis in veterinary epidemiology: study of the High Pathogenic Avian Influenza epidemic in Veneto e Lombardy Region (1999-2000)”.
March 2005 - February 2006: scholarship for researching activity on: “Analysis of the risk factors for the introduction of the Avian Influenza virus in the poultry flocks in Veneto Region” at Department of Public Health, Comparative Pathology and Veterinary Hygiene, University of Padua.
March 2006 – December 2017: Researcher position in Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals at Padua University.
January 2018 to date: Assistance professor position in Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals at Padua University.

Teaching activity:
Lecturer of “Veterinary Epidemiology”, “Epidemiology and control of food borne zoonoses”, “Risk analysis methodology” and “Swine viruses” for the Degree in Veterinary Medicine at Padua University.

Researching topics:
a) Epidemiology, immunology and virology of PRRS virus and Circoviruses (PCV2 and PCV3) in pig farms;
b) Epidemiological studies applied to infectious animal diseases, zoonoses and veterinary clinical pathology.
He co-authored about 80 papers in International peer-reviewed journals.

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