Manfrin Amedeo

Amedeo Manfrin | Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie Role Veterinarian
Structure Fish and Seafood Specialist Centre
Phone +39 0426 21841
E-mail amanfrin@izsvenezie.it

Professional profile

Amedeo manfrin is the head of the National Reference Laboratory for Crustacean Diseases, which is part of the Fish and Seafood Specialist Centre of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie. He is DVM and public health expert.  He has expertise in aquatic animal health and welfare, member of different national and international expert groups and lecturer at Italian universities.

His research activity particularly refers to aquatic animal health and welfare; use of  veterinary drugs and vaccines; surveillance and eradication plan according to WOAH/WHo listed diseases; fish, mollusc and crustacean zoonotic pathogens.

He is involved in the following ongoing activities, performed in collaboration with national and international Institutions: Flavobacteriaceae in European aquaculture; crayfish plague surveillance plan; use of vaccine in salmonid fish farming; new tolls for fish pathogen detection; welfare of farmed fish and new stunning and slaughtering techniques; organic aquaculture.

Publications

  • Furlan M, Rosani U, Gambato S, Manfrin A. et al.(2018). Induced expression of cathelicidins in trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) challenged with four different bacterial pathogens. J.Pep Sci . 2018;24:e3089. https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.3089
  • Cocchi M, De Zan G, Di Giusto T, Deotto S., Pretto T., Manfrin A., Brunette R., Toffan A. (2018). Systemic polymicrobic infection involving Shewanella putrefaciens group in koi. J Fish Dis. 2018;41:1929–193
  • Lembo G., Carbonara P., Fabris A., Manfrin A., Zupa W. (2019). Welfare Issues and Veterinary Treatments. In: Lembo G., Mente E. (eds) Organic Aquaculture. Springer, Cham.
  • Perolo A., Gustinelli A., Fioravanti M.L, Manfrin A., Dalla Pozza M., Lunelli F., Accini A., Quaglio F. (2019). Occurrence of nodular gill disease in farmed brown trout (Salmo trutta L.). Journal of Fish Diseases. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.13027
  • Carbonara P., Alfonso S., Zupa W., Manfrin A., Fiocchi E., Pretto T., Spedicato M.T., Lembo G. (2019). Behavioral and physiological responses to stocking density in sea bream (Sparus aurata): Do coping styles matter? Physiology & Behavior,Volume 212: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112698
  • Pinto A., Bille L., Crovato S., Marcolin S., Manfrin A., Dalla Pozza M., Binato G., Negroni G., Cappi G., Obregon P., Mascarello G., Ravarotto L. (2020). Billfish consumption habits and risk perception of citizens living in the Western Central Atlantic: Focusing on the Dominican Republic and Grenada, Food Control, 107725,ISSN 0956-7135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107725
  • Pasqualetti, J.G.Schmidt, A. Cafiso, L.Gammuto, O.Lanzoni, D.Sepulveda, A.Manfrin, L. Benedetti Cecchi, N. J. Olesen, C. Bazzocchi, G. Petroni (2021). Double trouble: could Ichthyophthirius multifiliis be a vehicle for the bacterium associated with red mark syndrome in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss? Aquaculture, Vol.533, 736230, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.736230
  • Haenen O., Karunasagar I., Manfrin A., Zrncic S., Lavilla Pitogo C., Lawrence M., Hanson L., Subasinghe R., Bonad-Reantaso M., Karunasagar Indrani. (2020). Contact Zoonotic bacteria of warmwater ornamental and cultured fish. In: Understanding antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture. FAO – Asian Fisheries Society. 33.S1: 39-45
  • Marsella, T. Pretto, M. Abbadi, R. Quartesan, L. Cortinovis, E. Fiocchi, A. Manfrin, A. Toffan (2021). Carp Edema Virus related mortality in wild adult common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Italy. J.Fish Dis. 001: 1-9. DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13353
  • Bordignon, F., Trocino, A., Xiccato, G., Birolo, M., Franchini, F., Bortoletti, M., Fiocchi, E., Manfrin, A., Bertotto, D. Effects of slaughtering methods on stress and post-mortem changes in rainbow trout. Book of Abstracts of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, p 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-918-3