Maria Aldana Vissani is head of the Laboratory of Equine Virology, National Institute of Agrotechnology (INTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vissani is a diagnostic virologist and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, Argentina), as well as a university teacher of Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of El Salvador. Her main research lines include the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and control of Equine Hepersviruses and Equine Rotaviruses, as well as the epidemiology of Equine Arteritis virus, Equine Influenza, and Equine Infectious Anemia.