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The Role of the Environment in the Spread and Maintenance of Zoonotic Pathogens

A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2018) | Viewed by 26446

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Roger Pickup

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Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, B078 Furness Building, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Interests: microbiology; MAP; Johne’s disease; ecology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is recognized that 62% of human pathogens, and 75% of emerging diseases, are zoonotic. It is accepted that human health and exposure to zoonotic disease is influenced by health of, and contact with, animals yet the environment plays a considerable role in the survival of zoonotic pathogens, their transport and exposure to human populations. Furthermore, the environment plays a role in, and provides drivers for, newly emerging disease and re-emerging diseases, for others, as with those, it acts as a reservoir for their survival. Coupled with antimicrobial resistance there is a real need for a deeper understanding of the threats to human health. This special issues recognizes that there are challenges to understanding the behaviour of zoonotic pathogens in the environment, their detection, identifying new threats and developing methods for their surveillance. There is a particular need for a One Health approach and this issue welcomes contributions that reflect single and multidisciplinary approaches to improving human health by reducing exposure to zoonotic infections.

Prof. Dr. Roger Pickup
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Zoonoses
  • environment
  • human health
  • viruses
  • bacteria
  • fungi
  • protozoa

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Forecasting Zoonotic Infectious Disease Response to Climate Change: Mosquito Vectors and a Changing Environment
by Andrew W. Bartlow, Carrie Manore, Chonggang Xu, Kimberly A. Kaufeld, Sara Del Valle, Amanda Ziemann, Geoffrey Fairchild and Jeanne M. Fair
Vet. Sci. 2019, 6(2), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci6020040 - 06 May 2019
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Infectious diseases are changing due to the environment and altered interactions among hosts, reservoirs, vectors, and pathogens. This is particularly true for zoonotic diseases that infect humans, agricultural animals, and wildlife. Within the subset of zoonoses, vector-borne pathogens are changing more rapidly with [...] Read more.
Infectious diseases are changing due to the environment and altered interactions among hosts, reservoirs, vectors, and pathogens. This is particularly true for zoonotic diseases that infect humans, agricultural animals, and wildlife. Within the subset of zoonoses, vector-borne pathogens are changing more rapidly with climate change, and have a complex epidemiology, which may allow them to take advantage of a changing environment. Most mosquito-borne infectious diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes in three genera: Aedes, Anopheles, and Culex, and the expansion of these genera is well documented. There is an urgent need to study vector-borne diseases in response to climate change and to produce a generalizable approach capable of generating risk maps and forecasting outbreaks. Here, we provide a strategy for coupling climate and epidemiological models for zoonotic infectious diseases. We discuss the complexity and challenges of data and model fusion, baseline requirements for data, and animal and human population movement. Disease forecasting needs significant investment to build the infrastructure necessary to collect data about the environment, vectors, and hosts at all spatial and temporal resolutions. These investments can contribute to building a modeling community around the globe to support public health officials so as to reduce disease burden through forecasts with quantified uncertainty. Full article
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Ticks and Tick-Borne Infections: Complex Ecology, Agents, and Host Interactions
by Stephen K. Wikel
Vet. Sci. 2018, 5(2), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci5020060 - 20 Jun 2018
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Ticks transmit the most diverse array of infectious agents of any arthropod vector. Both ticks and the microbes they transmit are recognized as significant threats to human and veterinary public health. This article examines the potential impacts of climate change on the distribution [...] Read more.
Ticks transmit the most diverse array of infectious agents of any arthropod vector. Both ticks and the microbes they transmit are recognized as significant threats to human and veterinary public health. This article examines the potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of ticks and the infections they transmit; the emergence of novel tick-borne pathogens, increasing geographic range and incidence of tick-borne infections; and advances in the characterization of tick saliva mediated modulation of host defenses and the implications of those interactions for transmission, establishment, and control of tick infestation and tick-borne infectious agents. Full article
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