Pathology of Wildlife in the Americas
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 1219
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anatomic pathology; wildlife; infectious diseases; viruses; bacteria; parasites; farm animals; camelids; respiratory pathology
Interests: anatomic pathology; invertebrates; wildlife; zoo and exotic animals; electron microscopy; toxic plants; viruses; neuropathology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Americas encompass a vast territory from North America to South America. The variety of climates, topography, hydrology, and ecology make the Americas the most biodiverse region in the world, which is reflected in the incredible diversity of flora and fauna. Since the fifteenth century with the Columbian Exchange, food, populations, and minerals, in addition to diseases like measles, plague, malaria, and smallpox, have been exchanged between the Americas and Europe. Currently, highly pathogenic diseases such as avian influenza, chytridiomycosis, and SARS-COVID-19 traverse borders, with wild animals playing the role of reservoirs and recipients of such imported diseases. Modernization and globalization of the Americas have created new menaces for native species populations. The fragmentation of landscapes causes inbreeding, the development of cancer, nutritional adaptations to hostile environments, and environmental pollution in terrestrial and aquatic species resulting in immunosuppression. All the above and other threats affecting wild animals in the Americas generate unique pathologies with important consequences for individual species, which impact wild populations, humans, domestic animals, and the environment. We believe that the holistic nature of anatomic pathology can help to better understand infectious and non-infectious diseases that affect both the wildlife population in the Americas and the balance among humans, animals, and environmental health.
This Special Issue aims to center anatomic pathology with its procedures and techniques to further the understanding of the diseases affecting wild populations inhabiting the Americas. Studies using captive and semi-captive populations might be considered as long as the results have significant relevance for wild populations of the species. In this Special Issue, original full research articles, case reports, and reviews are welcome. If you are not sure if your article would fit, you are welcome to email the guest editors. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Omar Gonzales Viera
Prof. Dr. Anibal G. Armien
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- anatomic pathology
- wildlife
- infectious diseases
- metabolic/nutritional diseases
- toxicology
- neoplasms
- nthropogenic activities
