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Csaba Varga

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

10

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332

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5

Scholarly Papers (10)

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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacteria Isolated from Cats Suspected of Urinary Tract Infections in Illinois, United States of America

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Mar 2025
Setyo Yudhanto, Carol W. Maddox, Csaba Varga and Chien-Che Hung
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 57 (989,921)

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urinary tract infection, cats, Antimicrobial resistance, E. coli, Enterococcus, Staphylococcus

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Factors Impacting Beef Cattle Producers’ Perceptions on Disease Prevention and Preparedness in Illinois, USA: The Role of Farm Biosecurity Evaluations, Veterinary Visits, and Willingness to Invest in Disease Prevention

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Jul 2025
Csaba Varga, Rima Shrestha and Mohammad Nasim Sohail
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Downloads 45 (1,121,190)

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Beef Cattle, Biosecurity, Perception, practices, Disease prevention, preparedness.

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Temporal Trends and Source Attribution of Animal-Contact Related Human Nontyphoidal Salmonella Enterica Outbreaks Across the United States, 2009-2022

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 May 2025
Hammad Bajwa, Suman Bhowmick and Csaba Varga
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 44 (1,133,231)

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Salmonella outbreaks, Animal contact, Incidence, Joinpoint regression, United States

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Spatial epidemiology of foodborne disease outbreaks caused by Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp., and E. coli O157 across the US, 2009–2022

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 18 Feb 2026
Max Chung and Csaba Varga
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 36 (1,236,159)

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outbreaks, disease surveillance, geospatial analysis, Spatiotemporal trends, clustering

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Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance in Salmonella Enterica Serovar Infantis Isolates of Poultry, Livestock, and Humans Across the United States, 2013-2020

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Dec 2024
Mohammad Nasim Sohail and Csaba Varga
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 36 (1,236,159)

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Salmonella Infantis, Prevalence, Antimicrobial resistance, Poultry, food animals, humans

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Designing a biosecurity educational website and assessing user engagement to enhance disease prevention and preparedness on beef cattle farms in the United States

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Feb 2026
Csaba Varga
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 31 (1,304,549)

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Beef cattle, Biosecurity, Disease prevention, Disease preparedness, United States, Educational website

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Longitudinal Analysis of Differences and Similarities in Antimicrobial Resistance Among Commensal Escherichia Coli Isolated from Market Swine and Sows at Slaughter in the United States, 2013-2019

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 28 Jul 2023
Hamid Reza Sodagari, Isha Agrawal, Setyo Yudhanto and Csaba Varga
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 28 (1,345,526)
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antimicrobial resistance, multidrug resistance, pigs, market hog, sow, surveillance, cecal samples, slaughter, United States

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Assessing multidrug resistance in Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni isolated from swine at U.S. slaughter plants using machine learning and regression approaches

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Nov 2025
Csaba Varga
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 23 (1,411,822)

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Multidrug Resistance, antimicrobial resistance, Swine, market hog, sow, cecal samples, slaughter, United States, Food Safety, Machine learning

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Emerging Feline Infectious Peritonitis Virus strains in Feral Cats exhibit extensive genomic recombination and ongoing viral evolution

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Apr 2026
Abid Ullah Shah, Csaba Varga, Nadine Moawad, Megan Rosen, Diane Levitan and Maged Hemida
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Long Island University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 20 (1,491,251)

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Feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV), feline coronavirus (FCoV), viral recombination, spike protein evolution, feral cats, molecular epidemiology, genomic surveillance, coronavirus evolution, feline infectious peritonitis outbreak, Cyprus FIP epidemic

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Genome mining and comprehensive molecular characterization of feline Panleukopenia virus reveals distinct VP2 mutational signatures and evolutionary divergence

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Jun 2026
Nadine Moawad, Abid Ullah Shah, Marialouise Burgos, Diane Levitan, Korakrit Poonsuk, Csaba Varga and Maged Hemida
Long Island University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Feline Panleukopenia virus (FPV), qPCR, IFA, isolation, molecular epidemiology, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), shelter cats