Curriculum

Grazia Greco  VetMed, PhD

• Current Academic Position:Associate Professor of infectious Diseases of Animals at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Italy
• Professional qualifications:
• Veterinary degree qualifications (DVM), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari (1995);
• PhD in “Infectious disease of small ruminants”, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari (1998);
• Academic assignments: 
• - Departmental Chair of the Erasmus+ Program
• - Member of the Post-graduate School in "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police", University of Bari;
• - Member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD course, University of Bari:
  • “Animal Health and Zoonosis” (XXXVIII till now));
  • “Animal Health and Zoonosis” (XXVI - XXXII cycle);
  • “Animal Health and Pathology” (XVII - XXV cycle);
  • “Infectious diseases of Carnivores (XV - XVI cycle);
• Teaching activities:
• -"Epidemiology and Animal Health" at Veterinary Medicine course (LM42), University of Bari (from 2013);
• -Bacterial Disease of domestic animal at Veterinary Medicine course (47S), University of Bari (from 2000 to 2012);
• -"Epidemiology" at PhD course in “Animal Health and Zoonosis”, University of Bari (from 2017); 
• -“Animal health” at the II Degree Master ““MED&FOOD: Sistemi di Gestione, controllo e valorizzazione delle eccellenze alimentari nel Mediterraneo”, University of Bari (from 2017); 
• -Veterinary Legislation (Animal health Low) at Post-graduate School "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police" (2023/24).
• - “Infectious diseases of domestic small ruminants” at Post-graduate School "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police" (2000-2017).
• - “Bacteriology” at Post-graduate School "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police" (from 2017).
• Additional information:
• Member of the Italian Society of Veterinary Infectivologists (ANIV).
• Member of the Italian Society of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (Si.Di.L.V.), 
• Member of the ICSP –Subcommittee on Taxonomy Chlamydiae (from 2008-2016).
• Award as Gold Presentation at the XVIII Congress of the Italian Society of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (Si.Di.L.V.) (2018)

• Main research fields:
• The research activity is focused on bacterial agents of domestic animals, with particular emphasis on those that have an economic impact on livestock productivity and are responsible for zoonoses. These studies involve bacteria of carnivores (Bartonella spp, hemotropic Mycoplasma, atypical Mycobacterium spp, Brucella) and ruminants (Mycoplasma agalactiae, Chlamydia spp, Coxiella burnetii, C. perfringens). Molecular surveillance of bacterial infections, development of innovative diagnostic assays and vaccines are objectives of this research.