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Email

abdul.ghafar@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow
Melbourne Veterinary School
Education
Graduate Certificate
University of Melbourne
PhD
The University of Melbourne
PhD
University of Melbourne
Certificate
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0002-7714-0752

Dr Abdul Ghafar

Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow
Melbourne Veterinary School

41 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Epidemiological insights into the prevalence of, and risk factors for, Eimeria species in Australian dairy goats
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2026.106628
  • 2026

    Journal article

    A reproducible, host-free feeding system for adult Haemaphysalis longicornis
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2026.106561
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Theileria orientalis
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2026.01.010
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Australian dairy goat farmers towards the control of gastrointestinal parasites
    DOI: 10.1186/s13071-024-06650-6
  • 2023

    Research grants (international)

    An Assessment of the Efficacy of an Irradiated Larval Vaccine Against Haemonchosis in Goats
  • 2023

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Toward Next-Generation Interventions Against Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases at a Critical Time of Climate Change
  • 2022

    Research Contracts

    Project Investigating Enteric and Respiratory Syndromes in Dairy Goats - a Pilot Project
Abdul Ghafar

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2022
Fellow of the Melbourne Academy
2020
Dairy Farmers of Victoria Post-Graduate Scholarship in Veterinary Science 2020 University of Melbourne
2019
Research Exchange, Training and Travel Award 2019 Australian Society for Parasitology
2012
President's Gold Medal National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Recent advances in intestinal helminth parasites of horses in the Asia-Pacific region: Current trends, challenges and future directions
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2025.100622
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Integrative use of conventional and DNA metabarcoding methods reveals high diversity, prevalence and intensity of gastrointestinal parasites in pigs from Victoria, Australia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2025.105902
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Bayesian latent class analyses show that serological testing outperforms conventional diagnostic methods for the detection of Ascaris in (individual) pigs
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2025.106396
  • 2025

    Journal article

    High Prevalence and Genetic Heterogeneity of Anaplasma marginale in Smallholder Bovine Populations of Pakistan, and Its Implications
    DOI: 10.3390/pathogens14050499
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Ten simple rules for implementing deep amplicon sequencing in parasitology
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2025.11.003
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Molecular prevalence, phylogeny and hematological impact of Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium spp. in common quails from Punjab, Pakistan
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304179

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2023

    Research grants (international)

    An Assessment of the Efficacy of an Irradiated Larval Vaccine Against Haemonchosis in Goats
  • 2023

    Internal Research Grant

    Advancing Tick-Borne Disease Control in Australia: Development of in Vitro Feeding Systems for Ticks

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