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Sustainable Development Goals

Research interests

• Parasitology
• Wildlife
• Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
• Feral animals
• Diseases Ecology

Profile

Professor Claudia Irais Muñoz García is a Veterinary Zootechnician by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Master in Health Sciences and Animal Production by the UNAM and Doctor in Veterinary Sciences by the University of Murcia.

She is currently a tenured Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). She teaches Infectious and Parasitic Diseases and their Importance for Public Health in the degree program in Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics.

Her disciplinary area is developed in the field of parasitic and infectious diseases in wildlife, in addition to other related areas of study, such as ecology, pathology, anatomy, and physiology of wild animals and invasive species and companion and production animals; and everything related to zoonotic diseases and the generation of new knowledge of pathogens in megadiverse countries.

Until 2020 she has authored 31 articles, one book and five book chapters. She is part of the academic body: Eco-physiopathology of wildlife. She is a member of organizations and associations such as: Sociedad Mexicana de Parasitología, Red de Fauna Nativa en Ambientes Antropizados, Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biología y Conservación and Red de Ecología de Enfermedades Latinoamericana.

She collaborates in projects with several universities and national and international institutions such as Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Universidad de Murcia, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, University of Witwatersrand, University of Fort Hare, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea González, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, among others.

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Research interests

• Parasitology
• Wildlife
• Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
• Feral animals
• Diseases Ecology

Academic Work

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
OA	Martinez-Hernandez, F., Muñoz-Garcia, C.I., Rendon-Franco, E. and 7 more (...) (2025).A clue to clarify the origin of Omicron. Royal Society Open Science,12(10)	\| 3\| 11 \|
	Ballados-González, G.G., Escorcia-Quintana, M.G., Chong-Guzmán, A. and 22 more (...) (2025).Hemoplasmas in opossums (Didelphis virginiana) from southeastern Mexico. Acta Tropica,269
OA	Diaz, O.L., Buendia, A., Sánchez, J. and 7 more (...) (2025).Identification of enterobacteriaceae causing septicemia in the axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology,118(3)
OA	Martínez-Hernández, F., Gonzalez-Arenas, N.R., Ocampo Cervantes, J.A. and 6 more (...) (2024).Identification of SARS-CoV-2 in urban rodents from Southern Mexico City at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo,66	\| 3\| 11 \|
OA	Hernández-Ortiz, A., Rendón-Franco, E., Muñoz-García, C.-I. and 3 more (...) (2024).Search for antibodies against Trichinella in two synanthropic Procyonidae species from southeast Mexico: white-nosed coatis (Nasua narica) and raccoons (Procyon lotor). Veterinary Research Communications,48(2) 1211-1217	\| 11 \|
	Sánchez-Montes, S., Rendón-Franco, E., Muñoz-García, C.I. and 8 more (...) (2023).New records, and molecular detection of vector-borne pathogens in Felicola subrostratus from eastern Mexico. Veterinary Research Communications,47(4) 2145-2152
	Rendón-Franco, E., García-Baltazar, A., Muñoz-García, C.I. and 5 more (...) (2023).Seroepidemiological analyses of rabies virus in two procyonid species from La Venta urban park, in Tabasco, Mexico. European Journal of Wildlife Research,69(5)	\| 3\| 11 \|
	Rocha-Martínez, N., López-Ordaz, R., Rendón-Franco, E. and 1 more (...) (2023).3D wildlife skull models for wildlife veterinary training. Anatomical Sciences Education,16(6) 1073-1078
	Muñoz-García, C.I., Rendón-Franco, E., Grostieta, E. and 2 more (...) (2023).Novel Francisella-like endosymbiont and Anaplasma species from Amblyomma nodosum hosted by the anteater Tamandua Mexicana in Mexico. Experimental and Applied Acarology,91(1) 111-121
OA	Martínez-Hernández, F., Oria-Martínez, B., Rendón-Franco, E. and 2 more (...) (2022).Trypanosoma cruzi, beyond the dogma of non-infection in birds. Infection, Genetics and Evolution,99
	Sánchez-Montes, S., Colunga-Salas, P., Lozano-Sardaneta, Y.N. and 30 more (...) (2021).The genus Rickettsia in Mexico: Current knowledge and perspectives. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases,12(2)
	Rodríguez-Cabo-Mercado, R., Martínez-Hernández, F., Aréchiga-Ceballos, N. and 8 more (...) (2020).Canine distemper in neotropical procyonids: Molecular evidence, humoral immune response and epidemiology. Virus Research,290	\| 15 \|
OA	Martínez-Hernández, F., Isaak-Delgado, A.B., Alfonso-Toledo, J.A. and 4 more (...) (2020).Assessing the SARS-CoV-2 threat to wildlife: Potential risk to a broad range of mammals. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation,18(4) 223-234	\| 3\| 12 \|
OA	Villalobos, G., Muñoz-García, C.I., Rodríguez-Cabo-Mercado, R. and 5 more (...) (2020).Prevalence and epitope recognition of anti- trypanosoma cruzi antibodies in two procyonid species: Implications for host resistance. Pathogens,9(6) 1-11
	Isaak-Delgado, A.B., López-Díaz, O., Romero-Callejas, E. and 4 more (...) (2020).Morphological and molecular characteristics of hemoparasites in vaillant’s frogs (Lithobates vaillanti). Parasitology Research,119(6) 1891-1901
	Martinez-Hernandez, F., Martinez-Ibarra, J.A., Lopez-Escamilla, E. and 5 more (...) (2020).Molecular genotyping of Blastocystis spp. in wild mammals from Mexico. Parasitology Research,119(1) 97-104
	Lozada-Gallegos, A.R., Muñoz-García, C.I., Villanueva-García, C. and 5 more (...) (2020).Radiographic anatomy of the forelimb in the northern tamandua ( tamandua mexicana ). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine,51(2) 265-274	\| 15 \|

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	25O	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias y su Importancia para la Salud Pública	Licenciatura
2	25O	Seminario I	Posgrado
3	25O	Seminario I	Posgrado
4	25O	Trabajo de Investigación I	Posgrado
5	25O	Trabajo de Investigación I	Posgrado
6	24I	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias y su Importancia para la Salud Pública	Licenciatura
7	24I	La Comunicación en Las Ciencias y Tecnologías Agropecuarias	Posgrado
8	23O	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias y su Importancia para la Salud Pública	Licenciatura
9	23O	Seminario de Avances de Investigación II	Posgrado
10	23P	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias y su Importancia para la Salud Pública	Licenciatura
11	23P	Seminario de Avances de Investigación I	Posgrado
12	23I	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias y su Importancia para la Salud Pública	Licenciatura
13	22O	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias y su Importancia para la Salud Pública	Licenciatura
14	22P	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias y su Importancia para la Salud Pública	Licenciatura
15	22I	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias y su Importancia para la Salud Pública	Licenciatura

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