Flavio Sacchini
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Flavio Sacchini is a veterinary officer at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, where he currently serves as Head of the Immunology and Serology Unit.
Flavio Sacchini is a veterinary officer at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, where he currently serves as Head of the Immunology and Serology Unit.
He carries out and coordinates diagnostic and research activities within the Laboratory for Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), the National Reference Centre for Exotic Animal Diseases (Ce.S.M.E.), and the WOAH Reference Centre and Laboratory for Animal Brucellosis. Since 2015, he has served as an expert on CBPP within the WOAH ad hoc group for the recognition of official disease-free status of Member Countries.
From 2016 to 2017, he worked at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi (Kenya), contributing to the development of research models and vaccines for CBPP and Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia – both mycoplasma-related diseases endemic in the African continent.
His research focuses on pathogenesis, immune response, the development of diagnostic methods, and the improvement of vaccines for the prevention and control of animal diseases.
Flavio Sacchini has participated in several national and international research projects and is the author of 47 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, with an h-index of 14 (Scopus).
