Lucilla Giulietti

Orcid-ID: 0000-0003-1091-6429

Scopus Author ID: 57193906450

ResearcherID: AAB-7692-2019

h-index: 11

Peer-Reviewed Publications (28):

1. Cipriani, P., Palomba, M., Ruggiero, L., Mæle, S. and Giulietti, L. (2025) Survey on Kudoa thyrsites in Sardina pilchardus From the Central Tyrrhenian Sea. J Fish Dis e14123.  doi: 10.1111/jfd.14123
2. Cipriani, P., Bao, M., Giulietti, L., Storesund, J.E., Staby, A., and Levsen, A. (2025) Anisakid parasites (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in European hake (Merluccius merluccius) from Norwegian waters: Considerations on food safety and host population ecology. Food Control, 171, 111097.  doi: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2024.111097
3. Cipriani, P., Giulietti, L., Bao, M., Palomba, M., Mattiucci, S., and Levsen, A. (2024) Post-mortem tissue migration of Anisakis simplex (s.s.) larvae (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in three commercially harvested fish species from the Northeast Atlantic: The role of storage time and temperature. Food Control, 157, 110162.  doi: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2023.110162
4. Giulietti, L., Levsen, A., Bao, M., Karlsbakk, E., Storesund, J.E., Tung, H.-S. and Cipriani, P. (2024) First report of ‘Soft Flesh’ induced by the parasite Kudoa thyrsites (Myxosporea) in commercial codfish from Norway. Journal of Fish Diseases 14067.  doi: 10.1111/jfd.14067
5. Giulietti, L., Hernandez-Milian, G., Cipriani, P., Bao, M., Tung, H.-S., Hernández, C., Levsen, A. (2024) Occurrence of ‘soft flesh’ condition induced by Kudoa thyrsites parasite in the Iberian European sardine stock. Parasitology Research 123, 412 doi: 10.1007/s00436-024-08436-2
6. Giulietti, L., Benallal, M.R., Paolo, C., Bao, M., Karlsbakk, E., Storesund, J.E., Levsen, A. (2024) Post-mortem ‘soft flesh’ in three commercial fish species from off Atlantic Morocco associated with the myxosporean parasites Kudoa thyrsites and K. encrasicoli (Myxozoa). International Journal of Food Microbiology 411:110520. doi: 10. 1016/j. ijfoodmicro. 2023. 110520
7. Cipriani, P., Palomba, M., Giulietti, L., Aco-Alburqueque, R., Andolfi, R., Ten Doeschate, M., Brownlow, A., Davison, N.J., Mattiucci, S. (2024) Anisakid parasite diversity in a pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps (Cetacea: Kogiidae) stranded at the edge of its distribution range in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Parasite. 31:43. doi: 10.1051/parasite/2024042.
8. Bao M., Giulietti L., Levsen A., Karlsbakk E. (2023) Resurrection of genus Phocanema Myers, 1959, as a genus independent from Pseudoterranova Mozgovoĭ, 1953, for nematode species (Anisakidae) parasitic in pinnipeds and cetaceans, respectively. Parasitology International, 97:102794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2023.102794.
9. Bao M., Cipriani P., Giulietti L., Alam, M.A., Palomba M., Mattiucci S., Levsen A.  (2022) Ascaridoid nematodes infecting commercially important marine fish and squid species from off Bangladesh. Food and Waterborne Parasitology. 27:e00157. doi: 10.1016/j.fawpar.2022.e00157
10. Bao M., Olsen K.M., Cipriani P., Levsen A., Giulietti L., Storesund J.E, Karlsbakk E. (2022) Characterization of Pseudoterranova ceticola (Nematoda: Anisakidae) larvae from meso/bathypelagic fishes off Macaronesia (NW Africa waters). Scientific Reports – Nature, 12:17695. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22542-0
11. Cipriani P., Palomba M., Giulietti L., Marcer F., Mazzariol S, Santoro M., Aco Alburqueque R., Covelo P. López A., Santos M.B., Pierce G.J., Brownlow A., Davison N., McGovern B., Frantzis A., Alexiadou V., Højgaard D.P., Mikkelsen B., Paoletti M., Nascetti G., Levsen A., Mattiucci S. (2022) Distribution and genetic diversity of anisakid nematodes of the genus Anisakis in cetaceans from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports – Nature, 12:13664. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-17710-1
12. Cipriani P., Giulietti L. *, Shayo S.D., Bao M., Storesund J.E, Palomba M., Mattiucci S., Levsen A. (2022) Anisakis typica (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in flesh of commercial fishes from South-West Indian Ocean: Genetic diversity and food safety implications. Food and Waterborne Parasitology, 2022:e00177. doi: 10.1016/j.fawpar.2022.e00177. (* corresponding author).
13. Giulietti L., Karlsbakk E., Cipriani P., Bao M., Storesund J., Marathe N.P., Levsen A. (2022) Long-term investigation of the ‘soft flesh’ condition in Northeast Atlantic mackerel induced by the myxosporean parasite Kudoa thyrsites (Cnidaria, Myxozoa): Temporal trends and new molecular epidemiological observations. Fisheries Research, 248:106221 doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2021.106221
14. Giulietti L., Nedberg H.J., Karlsbakk E., Marathe N.P., Storesund J.E., Mæhle S., Fiksdal I.U., Ghebretnsae D.B, Levsen A. (2022) Distribution of Kudoa thyrsites (Cnidaria, Myxozoa) myoliquefactive stages in Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) inferred from qPCR and histology. Parasitology Research, 21:2325-2336. doi: 10.1007/s00436-022-07575-8.
15. Levsen A., Cipriani P., Palomba M., Giulietti L., Storesund J., Bao, M. (2022) Anisakid parasites (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in three commercially important gadid fish species from the southern Barents Sea, with emphasis on key infection drivers and spatial distribution within the hosts. Parasitology, 149, 1942-1957. doi:10.1017/S0031182022001305
16. Storesund J.E., da Silva Nylund C., Karlsbakk E., Giulietti L., Bao M., Cipriani P., Levsen A. (2022) High prevalence of Ichthyophonus sp. infections in North-East Atlantic Mackerel (Scomber scombrus). Journal of Fish Diseases, 45:1243–1249. doi: 10.1111/jfd.13652
17. Bao M., Cipriani P., Giulietti L., Natalia D., Levsen A. (2021) Quality issues related to the presence of the fish parasitic nematode Hysterothylacium aduncum in export shipments of fresh Northeast Arctic cod (Gadus morhua). Food control, 121:107724. doi: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107724.
18. Cipriani P., Palomba M., Giulietti L., Bao M., Mattiucci S., Levsen A. (2021) Anisakis simplex (s.s.) larvae (Nematoda: Anisakidae) hidden in the mantle of European flying squid Todarodes sagittatus (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) in NE Atlantic Ocean: Food safety implications. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 339:109021. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2020.109021
19. Dezfuli B. Sayyaf, Simoni E., Bosi G., Palomba M., Mattiucci S., Giulietti L., Bao M., Levsen A., Cipriani P. (2021) Immunohistopathological response against anisakid nematode larvae and a coccidian in Micromesistius poutassou from NE Atlantic waters. Journal of Helminthology, 95. doi: 10.1017/S0022149X20000942
20. Bao M., Cipriani P., Giulietti L., Sunde R.I., Paoletti M., Palomba M., Levsen A. (2020) Air-dried stockfish of Northeast Arctic cod do not carry viable anisakid nematodes. Food Control, 116:107322. doi: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107322
21. Giulietti L., Karlsbakk E., Cipriani P., Shayo S.D., Storesund J.E., Levsen A. (2020) Molecular Characterization of the Myoliquefactive Fish Parasite Kudoa mirabilis (Cnidaria, Kudoidae) from SW Indian Ocean and Its Phylogenetic Relationship with the Kudoa thyrsites Species Complex. Microorganisms, 8:1352. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8091352
22. Palomba M., Cipriani P., Giulietti L., Levsen A., Nascetti G., Mattiucci S. (2020) Differences in Gene Expression Profiles of Seven Target Proteins in Third-Stage Larvae of Anisakis simplex (sensu stricto) by Sites of Infection in Blue Whiting (Micromesistius poutassou). Genes, 11:559. doi: 10.3390/genes11050559
23. Cipriani P., Giulietti L., Palomba M., Mattiucci S., Bao M., Levsen A. (2019) Occurrence of larval ascaridoid nematodes in the Argentinean short-finned squid Illex argentinus from the Southwest Atlantic Ocean (off Falkland Islands). International Journal of Food Microbiology, 297:27-31. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2019.02.019
24. Giulietti L., Levsen A., Paoletti M., Grevskott D.H., Bao M., Cipriani P., Mattiucci S. (2019) Morphological and molecular identification of a new Kudoa thyrsites isolate in Mediterranean silver scabbardfish Lepidopus caudatus. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 132:125-134. doi: 10.3354/dao03316
25. Cipriani P., Sbaraglia G.L., Palomba M., Giulietti L., Bellisario B., Bušelić I., Mladineo I., Cheleschi R., Nascetti G., Mattiucci S. (2018) Anisakis pegreffii (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus from the Mediterranean Sea: Fishing ground as a predictor of parasite distribution. Fisheries Research, 202:59-68 doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2017.03.020
26. Cipriani P., Sbaraglia G. L., Paoletti M., Giulietti L., Bellisario B., Palomba M., Bušelić I., Mladineo I., Nascetti G., Mattiucci S. (2017) The Mediterranean European hake, Merluccius merluccius: Detecting drivers influencing the Anisakis spp. larvae distribution. Fisheries Research, 202:79-89. doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2017.07.010
27. Mattiucci S., Giulietti L., Paoletti M., Cipriani P, Gay M., Levsen A., Klapper R., Karl H., Bao M., Pierce G.J., Nascetti G. (2018) Population genetic structure of the parasite Anisakis simplex (s. s.) collected in Clupea harengus L. from North East Atlantic fishing grounds.  Fisheries Research, 202:103-111. doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2017.08.002
28. Pierce G. J, Bao M., Mackenzie K., Dunser A., Giulietti L., C., Mattiucci S., Cipriani P., Hastie L. (2017) Ascaridoid nematode infection in haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and whiting (Merlangius merlangus) in Northeast Atlantic waters. Fisheries Research, 202:122-133. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2017.09.008

Book chapters (1):

1. Levsen A., Cipriani P., Bao M., Giulietti L., Mattiucci S. (2020) Anisakiosis (Anisakis simplex s.l.). in Climate Change and Infectious Fish Diseases, Editor(s) Woo P.T.K., Leong J.A., Buchmann K. (CABI). doi: 10.1079/9781789243277.0457

Scientific Reports (5):

1. ICES (2025). Working Group on Pathology and Diseases of Marine Organisms (WGPDMO; outputs from 2024 meeting). ICES Scientific Reports. 7:17. 27 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.28343924
2. Elena Eriksen, Geir Odd Johansen, Gro van der Meeren, Herdis Langøy Mørk, Stine Karlson, Espen Bagøien, Miguel Bao-Dominguez, Erik Berg, Bjarte Bogstad, Stepan Boitsov, Paolo Cipriani, Padmini Dalpadado,Hanna Ellerine Helle Danielsen, Lucilla Giulietti, Elvar H. Hallfredsson, Hilde Elise Heldal, Ann Merete Hjelset, Arne Johannes Holmin, Hannes Höffle, Edda Johannesen, Lis Lindal Jørgensen, Arne Levsen, Georg Skaret, Hiroko Kato Solvang, Julia Storesund, Espen Strand, Ida Vee, Tone Vollen, Rupert Wienerroither, Kristin Windsland, Fabian Zimmermann and Nils Øien (2024). Revision of the Norwegian-Russian Barents Sea Ecosystem Survey (BESS): the current status and revision of the Norwegian sector of the BESS survey ISSN:1893-4536
3. ICES (2023). International Bottom Trawl Survey Working Group (IBTSWG). ICES Scientific Reports. Report. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.23743989.v1
4. Levsen A., Cipriani P., Giulietti L., Storesund J. (2023) Kartlegge forekomst av kveis i hvitfisk i norske farvann gjennom året. Sluttrapport FHF prosjekt nr. 901628
5. Bao M., Roiha I.S., Giulietti L., Cipriani P., Levsen A. (2019) Overlevelse av kveis (Anisakis) i tørrfisk. Dokumentasjon knyttet til overlevelse av kveis (Anisakis) i produksjon av tørrfisk. Sluttrapport FHF prosjekt nr. 901332.

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AS PRESENTING AUTHOR

2. FHFs White Fish seminar, Tromsø, Norway. Giulietti L. “Den kvalitetsnedsettende «geléfisk»-parasitten Kudoa i brosme og torsk”

Oral presentation 2024

3. ICES-PICES-FAO International Symposium on “Small Pelagic Fish: New Frontiers in Science and Sustainable Management”, Lisbon, Portugal Giulietti L., Benallal M.R., Cipriani P., Bao M., Karlsbakk E., Storesund J.E., Levsen A. Occurrence of parasite-induced ‘soft flesh’ in some commercially important pelagic fish species from off Morocco: product quality implications

Poster

2023

4. International Scientific Symposium on the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME), Guinea Bissau.

Fernández-Peralta L., Soto M., Liébana M., Fernández J., Ortiz A., García-Cancela R., Salmerón F., Rey J., Giulietti L., Bao M. First data on the Kudoa sp. parasite in Merluccius senegalensis from Mauritanian waters.

Oral presentation   2023

5. 15th International Congress of Parasitology, Copenhagen, Denmark. Giulietti L., Nedberg H.J., Karlsbakk E., Marathe N.P., Storesund J.E., Mæhle S., Fiksdal I.U., Ghebretnsae D.B, Levsen A. Distribution of the myoliquefactive parasite Kudoa thyrsites (Myxozoa) in Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) inferred from qPCR and histology.

Oral presentation   2022

6. 15th International Congress of Parasitology, Copenhagen, Denmark. Giulietti L., Cipriani P., Bao M., Nøttestad L., Slotte A., Storesund J.E., Bruvik A., Tousgaard F., Hermansen E., Levsen A. Drivers of K. thyrsites-induced ‘soft flesh’ in Northeast Atlantic mackerel.

Poster

2022

7. 15th International Congress of Parasitology, Copenhagen, Denmark. Giulietti L., Cipriani P., Shayo S.D., Bao M., Storesund J.E, Palomba M., Mattiucci S., Levsen A. Anisakis typica (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in flesh of commercial fishes from South-West Indian Ocean: Genetic diversity and food safety implications.

Poster

2022

8. 9th Conference of the Scandinavian - Baltic Society for Parasitology, Vilnius, Lithuania. Giulietti L., Karlsbakk E., Cipriani P., Bao M., Storesund J.E., Marathe N.P, Levsen A. First molecular epidemiological study of Kudoa thyrsites (Cnidaria, Kudoidae) in Atlantic Mackerel, Scomber scombrus L., from the NE Atlantic Ocean.

Poster

2021

9. 30th Italian National Congress of Parasitology, Milan, Italy. Giulietti L., Levsen A., Paoletti M., Grevskott D.H., Bao M, Cipriani P., Mattiucci S. First molecular identification of the fish myoliquefactive parasite Kudoa thyrsites (Myxosporea, Multivalvulida) in Lepidopus caudatus from the Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea).

Oral Presentation

2018

OUTREACH

Interview NRK «Fryktet parasitt forvandlet kysttorsk til slimete gelé på få timer: – Svært overrasket» https://www.nrk.no/nordland/parasitten-kudoa-forvandler-kysttorsk-til-ugjenkjennelig-slimklump-1.16853557

Apr 2024

Interview Fiskeribladet: «Ukjent» parasitt bryter ned minst to prosent av makrellen» https://www.fiskeribladet.no/nyheter/-ukjent-parasitt-bryter-ned-minst-to-prosent-av-makrellen/2-1-910128

Nov 2020

Interview Italian State TV: «Norwegian seafood: innovations and future perspectives» https://www.raiplay.it/video/2019/12/petrolio-algoritmo-di-natale-b7648bcb-e13f-45de-a6c4-d1a4138aed26.html

Jan 2020

Interview Forskning.no: «Denne parasitten gjer fiskekjøtt om til flytande graut. Når vertane døyr, begynner dei mikroskopiske Kudoa-sporane å bryte ned fiskekjøttet. Resultatet kan du drikke med sugerøyr» https://forskning.no/fiskehelse-havforskningsinstituttet-partner/denne-parasitten-gjer-fiskekjott-om-til-flytande-graut/1293006

Feb 2019

PROJECT PARTICIPATION

Project Leader

Program/Funding source

Title

Period

Lucilla Giulietti

Seafood biohazards  IMR/FFA

Monitoring of parasites in commercially important wild fish in Norway

2023-present

Lucilla Giulietti

Seafood biohazards  IMR/NFD

NRL Anisakidae parasites in seafood

2023-present

Strand Øivind

Norad, IMR

China EAG - phase III  2019-2026

2024-present

Kristjansson Larus Thor

Norad, IMR

Mozambique - Pilar 3 - Research & development

2024-present

Arne Levsen

Seafood biohazards  IMR/FHF

National survey of the occurrence of anisakid nematodes in Norwegian farmed cod

2023-2024

Arne Levsen

Seafood biohazards  IMR/FHF

Monitoring the occurrence of Anisakid parasites (kveis) in whitefish in Norwegian waters throughout the year

2020-2022

Miguel Bao

Seafood biohazards  IMR/FHF

Improving our knowledge about Hysterothylacium aduncum in cod, saithe and haddock from Norwegian waters with special focus on preventive measures for the industry

2019-2020

Nikolaos Nikolioudakis

FAO/Norad, IMR

EAF-Nansen Programme

2018-present

Arne Levsen

Seafood biohazards  IMR/FFA

Surveillance of the Norwegian Wild-Catch Fisheries for Biohazards and Contaminants

2017-2022

Miguel Bao

Seafood biohazards  IMR/FHF

Survival of parasitic nematodes (Anisakis) in stockfish

2017-2018

Santiago Pascual

Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas /EU

EU project PARASITE-Risk assessment with integrated tools in EU fish production value chains

2013-2016