Francesca Mancianti

Francesca Mancianti is full Professor in Veterinary Parasitology (University of Pisa, Italy) since 2006. Her current teaching activity covers the Chair of Veterinary Parasitology since 2002/2003 at University of Pisa, Mycology in Post graduated course of Animal Health, University of Pisa since the same year, Parasitic diseases in Post graduated course of Food Hygiene, University of Pisa since 1998/99 and Parasitology (diagnostic techniques) in Post graduated course of Microbiology and Virology, University of Pisa, since 1996/97. She is member of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (since 1985), The Society of Protozoologists (since 1988) and International Society for Human and Veterinary Mycology (since 1990) Her current researches deal with application of biomolecular quantitative technologies in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of leishmaniasis and toxoplasmosis in dogs, cats and foxes, the study of cell mediated immunological response in canine leishmaniasis, the epidemiology and biochemical and molecular characterization of yeasts belonging to the genus Malassezia, the in vitro and in vivo sensitivity of Malassezia and M. canis to different antimycotic drugs, the epidemiology of Giardia, Toxoplasma and Cryptosporidium in animals and in environment survey as well as environmental presence of yeasts and filamentous fungi.

Biography Updated on 28 May 2013

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