Margarita Terentjeva Academic position Associate Professor / Leading researcher Dr.med.vet. Field of research 1. Implementation of the "One Health" concept and species interaction studies in the context of climate change E-mail margarita.terentjeva@lbtu.lv Telephone +37163021946 Obtained doctoral degree in veterinary medicine at the Latvia University of Agriculture (present Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies). She is an associate professor of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. She led and participated in multiple national and international projects including international networks related to the epidemiology and animal health. The main research interests are epidemiology of foodborne zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, food microbiology and safety. She is an author or co-author of 69 Scopus indexed publications, h-index of 20. The most important publications (2019-2025) M. Terentjeva , (2025), Chemical composition, antimicrobial, antibiofilm and insecticidal enhancing of Eucalyptus citriodora essential oil and its potential to shelf-life extension of pumpkin after inoculation of Salmonella enterica, Food Control, ISSN 1873-7129 M. Terentjeva , (2024), Antimicrobial resistance in Enterococcus spp. Isolates from Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Latvia, Antibiotics, ISSN 2079-6382 M. Terentjeva , (2022), Prevalence, virulence determinants, and genetic diversity in Yersinia enterocolitica isolated from slaughtered pigs and pig carcasses, International Journal of Food Microbiology, ISSN 1879-3460 M. Terentjeva , (2020), The evaluation of chemical, antioxidant, antimicrobial and sensory properties of kombucha tea beverage, Journal of Food Science and Technology, ISSN 0022-1155 M. Terentjeva , (2019), Comparison of MALDI-TOF MS Biotyper and 16S rDNA sequencing for the identification of Pseudomonas species isolated from fish, Microbial Pathogenesis, ISSN 0882-4010 Membership Rural Sustainability Research (LBTU, Latvia); MDPI Veterinary Sciences special issue the main editor “Advanced research on antimicrobial resistance in farm animals”; Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (Tübitak, Turkey);