Professor Michael Reichel

Biography/ Background

Prof Michael P Reichel graduated with a veterinary degree from the Free University of Berlin. Since then he has spent most of his professional life in the Southern hemisphere, working in New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, but also East Africa and Switzerland, and lately Australia. He has experience in both, government service and private industry and has also been closely associated with universities in Australasia (he also holds an adjunct professorial appointment at UTS, Sydney) and has collected half a dozen postgraduate qualifications along the way.

His research interest incorporates Veterinary Public Health in the classical sense of zoonoses and he has been involved in echinococcosis, tuberculosis and brucellosis research. His interest in population medicine has extended from disease eradication programmes in the Falkland Islands (successful Br ovis eradication) to the diagnosis, control and economics of Neospora caninum abortions and Bovine Diarrhoea Virus in cattle.

Qualifications

Veterinary Surgeon, Free University Berlin, Germany

Postgraduate Diploma in Veterinary Public Health, Massey University, New Zealand

MVSc, Massey University, New Zealand

Dr med vet (Immunology/Epidemiology), Veterinary School Hanover, Germany

Postgraduate Diploma in Veterinary Tropical Medicine, Free University Berlin, Germany

PhD (Immunology/Epidemiology), University of Technology, Sydney

Master of Business Administration, Macquarie University, Sydney

Publications

Selection of publications from past five years:

Reichel MP and Ellis JT (2006) Control of Neospora caninum infection is technically feasible – but does it make economic sense? Veterinary Parasitology 142, 23-34

Hill FI, Reichel MP, McCoy RJ and Tisdall DJ (2007) Evaluation of two commercial enzyme linked immunosorbent assays for the detection of bovine viral diarrhoea virus in serum and skin biopsies of cattle. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 55, 45-48

Williams DJL, Guy CS, Smith RF, Ellis J, Björkman C, Reichel MP and Trees AJ (2007) Immunisation of cattle with live tachyzoites of Neospora caninum confers protection against foetal death. Infection and Immunity 75, 1343-1348

Reichel MP, Ellis JT and Dubey JP (2007) Neosporosis and hammondiosis in dogs. Journal of Small Animal Practice 48, 308-312

Reichel MP, Hill FI and Voges H (2008) Does control of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea infection make economic sense? New Zealand Veterinary Journal 56, 60-66

Barratt J, Al Qassab S, Reichel MP and Ellis JT (2008) The development and evaluation of a nested PCR assay for detection of Neospora caninum and Hammondia heydorni in feral mouse tissues. Molecular and Cellular Probes 22, 228-233

Ellis JT, Miller CMD, Quinn H, Ryce C, and Reichel MP (2008) Evaluation of recombinant proteins of Neospora caninum as vaccine candidates (in a mouse model). Vaccine 26, 5989-5996

Reichel MP and Ellis JT (2008) Re-evaluating the economics of neosporosis control. Veterinary Parasitology 156, 361-362

Al-Qassab S, Reichel MP, Ivens A and Ellis JT (2009) Genetic diversity amongst isolates of Neospora caninum and the development of a multiplex PCR for the detection of distinct strains. Molecular and Cellular Probes 23, 132-139

Reichel MP and Ellis JT (2009) Neospora caninum - how close are we towards development of an efficacious vaccine that prevents abortions in cattle? International Journal for Parasitology 39, 1193-1187

Al-Qassab S, Reichel MP, Hall C, Johnson M, Windsor P, Jenkins D, Su C, Dubey JP and Ellis JT (2009) Isolation of Toxoplasma gondii from the brain of a dog in Australia and its biological and molecular characterisation. Veterinary Parasitology 164, 335-339

Al-Qassab S, Reichel MP and Ellis JT (2010) A second generation Multiplex PCR for typing strains of Neospora caninum using six DNA targets. Molecular and Cellular Probes 24, 20-26

Hill FI, Reichel MP and Tisdall D (2010) Use of molecular and epidemiological information for the cost-effective diagnosis of BVD infection in New Zealand dairy cattle. Veterinary Microbiology 142, 87-89

Al-Qassab SE, Reichel MP and Ellis JT (2010) On the biological and genetic diversity of Neospora caninum. Diversity 2, 411-438

Bishop S, King J, Windsor P, Reichel MP, Ellis J and Slapeta S (2010) The first report of ovine cerebral neosporosis and evaluation of Neospora caninum prevalence in sheep in New South Wales. Veterinary Parasitology 170, 137-142

Nasir A, Ashraf M, Khan MS, Javeed A, Yaqub T, Avais M and Reichel MP (2012) Prevalence of Neospora caninum antibodies in sheep and goats in Pakistan. Journal of Parasitology 98, 213-215

Nasir A, Lanyon, SR, Schares G, Anderson ML and Reichel MP (2012) Sero-prevalence of Neospora caninum and Besnoitia besnoiti in South Australian beef and dairy cattle. Veterinary Parasitology 186, 480-485

Weber FH, 

Jackson JA, Sobecki B, Choromansk Li,  Olsen M,  Meinert T,  Frank R,  Reichel MP  and Ellis JT (2013) On the Efficacy and safety of vaccination in cattle with live tachyzoites of Neospora caninum for the prevention of Neospora-associated fetal loss. Clinical Vaccine Immunology, doi:10.1128/CVI.00225-12

Reichel MP, Ayanegui-Alcérreca MA, Gondim LFP and Ellis JT (2013) What is the global economic impact of Neospora caninum in cattle - the billion dollar question. International Journal for Parasitology 43, 133-142

Professional Associations

Member - Veterinary Public Health - Australian College of Veterinary Scientists (1989)

Fellow   - Veterinary Public Health - Australian College of Veterinary Scientists (1998)

Diplomate  - Population Medicine - European College of Veterinary Public Health (2004)

Registered Specialist in Veterinary Public Health and Food Hygiene

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Animals and veterinary science, Science and technology
Expertise	Epidemiology, Veterinary Public Health, Zoonoses, Animal Health, Economics
Notes	Fellow of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists, Diplomate of European College of Veterinary Public Health

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013