Agnoletti Fabrizio
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Role | Director |
| Structure | SCT4 – Udine and Pordenone | |
| Phone | +39 0432 561529 (Udine) +39 0434 41405 (Pordenone) |
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| fagnoletti@izsvenezie.it |
Professional profile
Fabrizio Agnoletti is the Director of the SCT4 – Udine and Pordenone Territorail Unit at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe).
He graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Bologna in 1985 and completed the annual course in animal disease prevention and control at the School for Scientific Research in Brescia in 1986. In 1992, he obtained a specialization in Veterinary Public Health from the University of Milan, followed by a Master’s degree in Integrated Management in Public Administrations from Fondazione CUOA (Altavilla Vicentina) in 2012.
After early professional experience as a staff veterinarian in Animal Health at the Veneto Region local health authority – Az. USL No. 7 (1987–1989) and as a research fellow at the Istituto Zooprofilattico di Brescia (1988), he joined IZSVe in 1990 as a staff veterinarian. He worked first at the Padua diagnostic section and then at the Udine section, serving as head of the latter since 1999. From 2003 to 2019, he directed the SCT2 – Treviso, Belluno and Venezia Territorail Unit, and since 2020 he has been heading SCT4 – Friuli Venezia Giulia. Since 2026, he has served as Director of the Department of Animal Pathology and Public Health.
He is an expert in rabbit diseases, specializing in the laboratory diagnosis of infectious rabbit diseases. He also has extensive experience in the molecular characterization of bacteria, with a particular focus on Clostridium difficile and Staphylococcus aureus, as well as in evaluating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) using phenotypic and molecular methods. More recently, his work has focused on mass spectrometry applications in bacteriology.
He serves as scientific coordinator for several industry-funded research projects evaluating the in vitro efficacy of antimicrobial agents against bacterial rabbit pathogens. Over the last five years, he has also led numerous research projects investigating zoonotic bacteria (Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium difficile) and multidrug-resistant pathogens (MRSA, ESBL-producing E. coli, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Klebsiella pneumoniae) across multiple animal species.
He has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications and conference presentations.