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Shimon Harrus, DVM, Ph.D
Dipl. ECVCP
Associate Professor, Veterinary Internal Medicine.
Director, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Office Address:
P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Phone: +972-(0)8-9489022; 972-(0)3-9688546
Fax: +972-(0)8-9467940
Email Address: harrus@agri.huji.ac.il
Infectious diseases, vector-borne diseases, zoonoses, rickettsial diseases, ehrlichiosis, bartonellosis
Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ECVCP).
Specialist (Israeli specialization), Veterinary Internal Medicine of Companion Animals.
Small Animal Internal Medicine, Physiology, Parasitology, Clinical Methods.
Rickettsioses, Ehrlichiosis, Bartonelosis, and other vector-borne diseases.
- Director, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine.
- Member, Board of Governors, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Hebrew University.
- Member, Board of Governors, The Authority for Animal Facilities, Hebrew University.
- Member, Central Reception Committee, Hebrew University.
- Member, State Council for Animal Experimentation.
- Member, Editorial Board, Israel Journal of Veterinary Medicine.
- Member, Scientific Council, Israel Veterinary Medical Association.
Veterinary education, Infectious diseases, Veterinary clinical pathology.
- Israel Veterinary Medical Association.
- American Society for Rickettsiology.
- European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology.
- Israel Society for Parasitology, Protozoology & Tropical
Diseases.
- European Society of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
- Israel Society for Microbiology.
Harrus, S., Kenny, M., Miara, L., Aizenberg, I., Waner, T. and Shaw, S. (2004). Comparison of simultaneous splenic sample PCR with blood sample PCR for iagnosis and treatment of experimental Ehrlichia canis infection. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 48:4488-4490.
Harrus, S. and Baneth, G. (2005). Drivers for the emergence and reemergence of vector-borne protozoal and rickettsial organisms. Int. J. Parasitol. 35:1309-1318.
Bauer, O., Baneth, G., Eshkol, T., Shaw, S. and Harrus, S. (2006). Poly-genic detection of Rickettsia felis in cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from Israel. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 74:444-448.
Harrus, S., Lior, Y., Ephros, M., Grisaru-Soen, G., Keysary, A., Strenger, C., Jongejan, F., Waner, T., Baneth, G. (2007). Rickettsia conorii in humans and dogs: a seroepidemiological survey of two rural villages in Israel. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 77:133-135.
Shipov, A., Klement, E., Reuveni-Tager, L., Waner, T. and Harrus, S. 2008. Prognostic indicators for canine monocytic ehrlichiosis. Vet. Parasitol. 153:131-138.
Baneth, G., Harrus, S., Ohnona,F.S., and Schlesinger Y. 2009. Longitudinal quantification of Ehrlichia canis in experimental infection with comparison to natural infection. Vet. Microbiol. 136:321-5.
Or, M., Samish, M., Waner, T. and Harrus, S. 2009. Attenuation of Ehrlichia canis by multiple-passages in 2 different cultures. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. 15:74-75.
Morick, D., Osinga, N., Gruys, E. and Harrus, S. 2009. Identification of a Bartonella species in the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) and in seal lice (Echinophtirius horridus). Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 9:751-753.
Harrus, S., Kahila Bar-Gal, G., Golan, A., Elazari-Volcani, R., Kosoy, M., Morick, D., Avidor, B., Baneth, G. 2009. Isolation and genetic characterization of a genotype closely related to Bartonella tribocorum and Bartonella elizabethae in Israeli wild rats. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 81:55-58.
Morick, D., Baneth, G., Avidor, B., Kosoy, M. Y., Mumcuoglu, K. Y., Mintz, D.C, Eyal, O., Goethe, R., Mietze, A., Shpigel, N., Harrus, S. 2009. Detection of Bartonella spp. in wild rodents in Israel using HRM real-time PCR. Vet. Microbiol. 139:293-297.
Peleg, O., Baneth, G., Eyal, O., Inbar, J. and Harrus S. 2009. The use of chimeric DNA/RNA primers in quantitative PCR for the detection of Ehrlichia canis and Babesia canis Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 19:6393-6398.
Ohad, D. G., Morick, D., Avidor, B., Harrus, S. 2009. Molecular detection of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella koehlerae from aortic valves of Boxer dogs with infective endocarditis. Vet. Microbiol. 141:182-185.
Peleg, O., Baneth, G., Eyal, O., Inbar, J. and Harrus, S. 2010. Multiplex real time qPCR for the detection of Ehrlichia canis and Babesia canis vogeli. Vet. Parasitol. 173:292-299.
Morick, D., Krasnov, B. R., Khokhlova, I. S., Shenbrot, G. I., Kosoy, M. Y., Harrus, S. 2010. Bartonella genotypes in fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) collected from rodents in the Negev Desert, Israel. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76:6864-6869.
Harrus, S., Waner, T. 2011. Diagnosis of canine monocytotropic ehrlichiosis: An overview. Vet. J. 187:292-296.
Harrus, S., Perlman-Avrahami, A., Mumcuoglu, K. Y., Morick, D., Baneth, G. 2011. Molecular detection of Rickettsia massiliae, Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae and Rickettsia conorii israelensis in ticks from Israel. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. 17:176-180.
Harrus, S., Perlman-Avrahami, A., Mumcuoglu, K. Y., Morick, D., Eyal. O., Baneth, G. 2011. Molecular detection of Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma bovis, Anaplasma platys, Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii and Babesia canis vogeli in ticks from Israel. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. 17:459-463.
Mietze, A., Morick, D. , Köhler, H., Harrus, S., Nolte, I., Goethe, R. 2011. Combined MLST and AFLP typing of Bartonella henselae isolated from cats reveals new sequence types and suggests clonal evolution. Vet. Microbiol. 148:238-245.
Morick, D., Krasnov, B. R., Khokhlova, I. S., Gottlieb, Y., Harrus, S. 2011. Investigation of Bartonella acquisition and transmission in Xenopsylla ramesis fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). Mol. Ecol. In Press.
Mylonakis, M. E., Ceron, J. J., Leontides, L., Siarkou, V. I., Martinez, S., Tvarijonaviciute, A., Koutinas, A. F., Harrus, S. 2011. Serum acute phase proteins in naturally-occurring canine monocytic ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia canis). J. Vet. Int. Med. In Press.
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Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
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