Disease reservoirs: from conceptual frameworks to applicable criteria
Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2017 Central to the One Health approach and any disease eradication program is the question of whether a pathogen has a non-human reservoir. Despite well-established conceptual frameworks that define a reservoir of infection, empirical characterization of ...
Luisa K Hallmaier-Wacker +2 more
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Are disease reservoirs special? Taxonomic and life history characteristics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Pathogens that spill over between species cause a significant human and animal health burden. Here, we describe characteristics of animal reservoirs that are required for pathogen spillover.
Benjamin T Plourde +5 more
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Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health. [PDF]
Med Anthropol, 2023 The introduction of the special issue "Disease Reservoirs: Anthropological and Historical Approaches" sets out the origins and trajectories of disease reservoir frameworks. First, it charts the emergence and elaborations of the reservoirs concept within and across early 20th-century colonial contexts, emphasising its configuration within imperial ...
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Annual herbs - possible reservoirs of sharka disease? [PDF]
Plant Protection Science, 2002 Nineteen annuals - herbaceous indicators - were used for elucidation of Plum pox potyvirus seed transmission possibility after artificial inoculation with 9 different naturally infected PPV M and D strain sources.
Ľ. Slováková, I. Dávidová
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Dams threaten salmonids by triggering temperature-dependent proliferative kidney disease [PDF]
Communications BiologyDams provide different services for human society, but they also significantly disrupt ecosystems by altering natural flow and temperature regimes. Here, we describe a novel, unappreciated threat posed by reservoirs to one of the world’s most popular ...
Magnus Lauringson +5 more
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Ecologic Niche Modeling and Potential Reservoirs for Chagas Disease, Mexico.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 Ecologic niche modeling may improve our understanding of epidemiologically relevant vector and parasite-reservoir distributions. We used this tool to identify host relationships of Triatoma species implicated in transmission of Chagas disease ...
A. Townsend Peterson +3 more
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Genospecies Diversity of Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Rodent Reservoirs
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999 To determine whether particular Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. genospecies associate solely with rodent reservoir hosts, we compared the genospecies prevalence in questing nymphal Ixodes ticks with that in xenodiagnostic ticks that had fed as larvae on ...
Dania Richter +5 more
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Success in animal skin fashion in African countries or the boom of the wet market [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2022 The world and the way things are done have changed, from selling clothing in brick-and-mortar stores to online shopping through social media platforms. Population growth has significantly contributed to an increased clothing demand, which, in turn, has ...
Andile Ephraim Mkhonza +2 more
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Mosquito-Borne Viruses and Non-Human Vertebrates in Australia: A Review
Viruses, 2021 Mosquito-borne viruses are well recognized as a global public health burden amongst humans, but the effects on non-human vertebrates is rarely reported. Australia, houses a number of endemic mosquito-borne viruses, such as Ross River virus, Barmah Forest
Oselyne T. W. Ong +3 more
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Review and A Brief Report on the Health Perspective, Causative Agents, Vectors, and Reservoirs of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Iran [PDF]
Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, 2022 Background: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is still widespread in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. The vector of the disease is a sandfly, when infected with Leishmania parasite, can transmit the parasite from humans to other vertebrates.
Jalal Mohammadi +6 more
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