Isabella Cattadori

Professor of Biology

Isabella Cattadori

Research Summary

Immuno-epidemiology of co-infection, how host immunity modulates parasite interactions and transmission and how host molecular processes explain the dynamics of infection at the population level.

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Rabbits Infection Helminths Viruses Myxoma Virus Infections Parasites Phenotype Virulence Antibodies Visualization Tanzania Bioinformatics Population Goats Pipelines Cattle Microbiota Helminthiasis Disease Transmission Seasonal Variation Small Intestine Sheep Animals Infectious Disease Transmission

Most Recent Publications

Contrasting responses of soil-transmitted helminths to temperature and humidity shape the spatiotemporal impact of climate change on the hazard of infection in Europe.

Vanalli Chiara, et al. (3 more authors) , Isabella Cattadori, Ecology Letters (also published in BioRxiv)

Temperature affects viral kinetics and vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes co-infected with Mayaro and Dengue viruses

Gerard Terradas, Jaime Manzano-Alvarez, Chiara Vanalli, Kristine Werling, Isabella M. Cattadori, Jason L. Rasgon, 2024, Parasites and Vectors

Helminth ecological requirements shape the impact of climate change on the hazard of infection

Chiara Vanalli, Lorenzo Mari, Renato Casagrandi, Marino Gatto, Isabella M. Cattadori, 2024, Ecology Letters

Modeling the contribution of antibody attack rates to single and dual helminth infections in a natural system

Chiara Vanalli, Lorenzo Mari, Renato Casagrandi, Brian Boag, Marino Gatto, Isabella M. Cattadori, 2023, Mathematical Biosciences

The enemy of my enemy is my friend: Immune-mediated facilitation contributes to fitness of co-infecting helminths

Francesca Dagostin, Chiara Vanalli, Brian Boag, Renato Casagrandi, Marino Gatto, Lorenzo Mari, Isabella M. Cattadori, 2023, Journal of Animal Ecology on p. 477-491

Modeling the within-host dynamics of single and dual helminth infections in a natural rabbit system.

Chiara Vanalli, et al. , Isabella Cattadori, 2023, Mathematical Biosciences (also published in bioRxiv)

Perception and Risk Factors Associated with Tuberculosis in the Manyara Region, Tanzania.

Prudence Masanga, et al. , Isabella Cattadori, Robarb Katani, 2023, Zoonotic Diseases on p. 266-278

Divergent Evolutionary Pathways of Myxoma Virus in Australia: Virulence Phenotypes in Susceptible and Partially Resistant Rabbits Indicate Possible Selection for Transmissibility

Peter J. Kerr, Isabella M. Cattadori, Derek Sim, June Liu, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew F. Read, 2022, Journal of Virology

Spatial scaling of gregarious host populations and nonlinearities in infectious disease transmission

Isabella M. Cattadori, 2022, Journal of Animal Ecology on p. 912-915

Gastrointestinal helminths increase Bordetella bronchiseptica shedding and host variation in supershedding

Nhat Nguyen, Ashutosh Pathak, Isabella M. Cattadori, 2022, eLife on p. 11:e70347

Most-Cited Papers

Convalescent plasma anti–SARS-CoV-2 spike protein ectodomain and receptor-binding domain IgG correlate with virus neutralization

Eric Salazar, 23 names , Suresh Kuchipudi, Isabella Cattadori, Paul Christensen, Todd Eagar, Xin Yi, Picheng Zhao, Zhicheng Jin, S. Long, Randall Olsen, Jian Chen, Brian Castillo, Christopher Leveque, Dalton Towers, Jason Lavinder, Jimmy Gollihar, Jose Cardona, Gregory Ippolito, Ruth Nissly, Ian Bird, Denver Greenawalt, Randall Rossi, Abhinay Gontu, Sreenidhi Srinivasan, Indira Poojary, I Cattadori, Peter J. Hudson, Nicole Josleyn, Laura Prugar, Kathleen Huie, Andrew Herbert, David Bernard, John Dye, Vivek Kapur, James Musser, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation on p. 6728-6738

Myxoma virus and the leporipoxviruses: An evolutionary paradigm

Peter Kerr, June Liu, Isabella Cattadori, Elodie Ghedin, Andrew F. Read, E Holmes, 2015, Viruses on p. 1020-1061

Next step in the ongoing arms race between myxoma virus and wild rabbits in Australia is a novel disease phenotype

P Kerr, Isabella M. Cattadori, J Liu, Derek G. Sim, Jeff W. Dodds, Jason W. Brooks, Mary J. Kennett, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew F. Read, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 9397-9402

Impact of helminth infections and nutritional constraints on the small intestine microbiota

Isabella M. Cattadori, Aswathy Sebastian, Han Hao, Robab Katani, Istvan Albert, Kirsten E. Eilertson, Vivek Kapur, Ashutosh Pathak, Susan Mitchell, 2016, PLoS One on p. e0159770

Seasonal variation of tsetse fly species abundance and prevalence of trypanosomes in the Maasai Steppe, Tanzania

H Nnko, A Ngonyoka, L Salekwa, A Estes, P Hudson, P Gwakisa, Isabella Cattadori, 2017, Journal of Vector Ecology on p. 24-33

Genomic and phenotypic characterization of myxoma virus from Great Britain reveals multiple evolutionary pathways distinct from those in Australia

Peter J. Kerr, Isabella M. Cattadori, Matthew B. Rogers, Adam Fitch, Adam Geber, June Liu, Derek G. Sim, Brian Boag, John Sebastian Eden, Elodie Ghedin, Andrew F. Read, Edward C. Holmes, 2017, PLoS Pathogens

IMAP: An integrated bioinformatics and visualization pipeline for microbiome data analysis

Teresia M. Buza, Triza Tonui, Francesca Stomeo, Christian Tiambo, Robab Katani, Megan Schilling, Beatus Lyimo, Paul Gwakisa, Isabella M. Cattadori, Joram Buza, Vivek Kapur, 2019, BMC Bioinformatics

Pastoral production is associated with increased peste des petits ruminants seroprevalence in northern Tanzania across sheep, goats and cattle

C Herzog, W de Glanville, B Willett, T Kibona, Isabella Cattadori, V Kapur, P Hudson, J Buza, S Cleaveland, O Bjørnstad, 2019, Journal of Hygiene on p. e242

Infections do not predict shedding in co-infections with two helminths from a natural system

Isabella M. Cattadori, Benjamin R. Wagner, Laura A. Wodzinski, Ashutosh K. Pathak, Adam Poole, Brian Boag, 2014, Ecology on p. 1684-1692

Peste des petits ruminants Virus Transmission Scaling and Husbandry Practices That Contribute to Increased Transmission Risk: An Investigation among Sheep, Goats, and Cattle in Northern Tanzania

Catherine Herzog, William de Glanville, Brian Willett, Isabella Cattadori, Vivek Kapur, Peter Hudson, Joram Buza, Emmanuel Swai, Sarah Cleaveland, O Bjornstad, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, 2020, Viruses

News Articles Featuring Isabella Cattadori

Feb 26, 2024

Temperature, humidity may drive future transmission of parasitic worm infections

As climate changes, temperature isn’t the only factor to influence the spread of infectious diseases. Humidity plays a role, too, according to new research published in Ecology Letters.

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Nov 09, 2022

Gut parasites may increase onward transmission of respiratory bugs in rabbits

Rabbits co-infected with a respiratory bacterial infection and one or more gut helminth parasites are more likely to shed bacteria that can infect others, according to a report led by researchers at Penn State and published today in eLife.

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Jan 10, 2022

‘Flurona’ is real, but don’t panic — it’s common to get two viruses at once

No, flurona is not some scary new variant of the coronavirus. And — do we really need to say this? — it is not an actual scientific term. But the phenomenon of “coinfection” with influenza and the coronavirus is real and, to those in the medical community, not the least bit surprising. A person can be infected with multiple viruses at the same time — or with a virus and some other type of pathogen, such as bacteria or parasites.

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Apr 06, 2020

Efforts to control livestock disease should focus on management style, not age

The risk of transmitting the virus PPRV, which produces a highly infectious and often fatal disease in sheep and goats, does not appear to vary significantly by an animal’s age, unlike its sibling virus measles, which is most prominent in children.

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