Dr. Filippo Fratini is an Associate Professor at the University of Pisa and a Lecturer in the courses “Veterinary Epidemiology” and “Infectious Bacterial Diseases”. He graduated in Veterinary Medicine in 2002 at the University of Pisa (Italy). In 2005 he obtained a PhD in “Animal Production, Health, and Food Hygiene in Mediterranean Climate Countries”, and in 2009 he obtained a specialisation in “Animal Health, Breeding, and Livestock Production” at the same University of Pisa. His main lines of research are focused on infectious diseases caused by bacteria in domestic and wild animals such as leptospirosis, salmonellosis, and paratuberculosis. Other topics are the antibacterial activity of natural substances and their synergistic activities, mastitis, antibiotic resistance in its causative agents, and microbiological aspects in edible insect rearing. Moreover, he is a member of the editorial board of “Microbiological Research” and “Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine”.