Dr. Victor J. Del
Rio Vilas
Pan
American Health Organisation, Brazil
Email:
vdelrio@paho.org
Qualifications
Ph.D.,
Royal Veterinary College, London, UK, Epidemiology and surveillance
M.Sc.,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine & Royal Veterinary College,
UK, Epidemiology
DVM,
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Publications (Selected)
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Del
Rio Vilas VJ., Voller F., Montibeller G., Franco A., Watson E., Hartley M.,
Gibbens J. The management of multiple emerging threats in animal health policy
settings. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 2012 .
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Ancelet
S., Abellan J.J, Richardson S., Del Rio Vilas V.J., Birch C. Bayesian Shared
Spatial-Component Models to Combine and Borrow Strength Across Disease
Surveillance Sources. Biometrical Journal 2012.
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Bohning
D., Kuhnert R., Del Rio Vilas V.J. (2011) Capture-recapture estimation by means
of empirical Bayesian smoothing with an application to spatial analysis of
hidden scrapie in Great Britain. Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series
C.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Montibeller G., Franco A. (2011). Letter to the editor:
Prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health: feedback on the
prioritisation methodology. Euro Surveillance 16, 27.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Ancelet S., Abellan J.J., Birch C.P.D, Richardson S. (2011) A
Bayesian hierarchical application to compare classical and atypical scrapie
surveillance data. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 98, 29-38.
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McIntyre
M, Del Rio Vilas V.J., Gubbins S. (2011) Demographic characteristics of
scrapie-affected holdings identified by active and passive surveillance schemes
in Great Britain, 2002-2005. The Veterinary Journal 187, 207-211.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Vink D.W., Hubbard R. (2010) Atypical scrapie in Great Britain:
a case-control study. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 96, 241-251.
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Birch
C.P.D., Del Rio Vilas V.J., Chikukwa A.C., Greene J. (2010) A “shotgun” method
for tracing the birth locations of sheep from flock tags, applied to scrapie
surveillance in Great Britain. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 96, 218-225.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Pfeiffer D.U. (2010) A review on evaluation of bias in scrapie
surveillance. The Veterinary Journal 185, 259-264.
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Stevens
K., Del Rio Vilas V.J., Guitian J. (2009) Classical sheep scrapie in Great
Britain: spatial analysis and identification of environmental and farm-related
risk factors. BMC Veterinary Research 5:33.
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Birch
C.P.D., Del Rio Vilas V.J., Chikukwa A. (2009) Spatial distribution of the
active surveillance of sheep scrapie in Great Britain: an exploratory analysis.
BMC Veterinary Research 5:23.
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Bohning
D., Del Rio Vilas V.J. (2009) On the question of proportionality of the count
of observed scrapie cases and the size of holding. BMC Veterinary Research
5:17.
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Ortiz
–Pelaez A., Del Rio Vilas V.J. (2009) Within holding prevalence of sheep
classical scrapie in Great Britain. BMC Veterinary Research 5:1.
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Kuhnert
R., Del Rio Vilas V.J., Gallagher J., Bohning D. (2008) A bagging-based
correction for the mixture model estimator of population size. Biometrical
Journal, 50 (6), 993-1005.
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Dawson
M., Del Rio Vilas V.J. (2008) Control of classical scrapie in Great Britain. In
practice, 30, 330-333.
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McIntyre
M., Gubbins S., Del Rio Vilas V.J. (2008). Temporal trends in the prevalence of
atypical scrapie in British sheep. BMC Veterinary Research, 2, 4-13.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Bohning D. (2008) Application of one-list capture-recapture
models to scrapie surveillance data in Great Britain. Preventive Veterinary
Medicine, 85, 253-266.
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Navaratna
W.C.W., Del Rio Vilas V.J., Bohning D. (2008) Extending Zelterman’s approach
for robust estimation of population size from zero-truncated clustered data.
Biometrical Journal 50, 584-596.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Bohning D., Kuhnert, R. (2008) A comparison of the active
surveillance of scrapie in the EU. Veterinary Research, 39(3), 37.
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Bohning
D. & Del Rio Vilas V.J. (2008) Estimating the hidden number of scrapie
affected holdings in Great Britain using a simple, truncated count model
allowing for heterogeneity. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and
Environmental Statistics 13, 1-22.
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Green
D.M., Del Rio Vilas V.J., Birch C., Johnson J., Kiss I.Z., McCarthy N., Kao
R.R. (2007) It’s not unusual? Patterns of atypical scrapie in Great Britain. J.
Gen. Virol.,88, 3486-92.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Hopp P., Nunes T., Ru G., Sivam K., Ortiz-Pelaez A. (2007)
Explaining the heterogeneous scrapie surveillance figures across Europe: a
meta-regression approach. BMC Veterinary Research 3:13.
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Kuncheva
L., Del Rio Vilas V.J.. Rodríguez J. (2007). Diagnosing Scrapie in Sheep: A
classification experiment. Computers in Biology and Medicine 37(8), 1194:202.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Guitian J, Pfeiffer D.U., Wilesmith J.W. (2006). Epidemiology
of scrapie in GB: analysis of passive surveillance data from 1993 to 2002.
Veterinary Record, 159, 799-804.
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Tongue
S, Pfeiffer D.U., Warner R., Elliot H., Del Rio Vilas V.J. (2006). Estimation
of the relative risk of developing clinical scrapie: the role of prion protein
(PrP) genotype and selection bias. Veterinary Record, 158, 43.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Ryan J., Elliot H., Tongue S., Wilesmith J.W. (2005).
Prevalence of scrapie in sheep: results from fallen stock surveys in 2002 and
2003. Veterinary Record, 157, 744-45.
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Del
Rio Vilas V.J., Sayers R., Sivam K., Pfeiffer D.U., Guitian J., Wilesmith J.W.
(2005). A case-study of capture-recapture methodology using scrapie
surveillance data in Great Britain. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 67,
303-317.