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Wild Carnivore Survey of Echinococcus Species in Slovenia
Animals, 2022 Wild carnivores are definitive hosts and potential reservoirs for the tapeworm Echinococcus sp. which can cause cystic and alveolar echinococcosis. Both are considered neglected and important food-borne pandemics. This study is the first to molecularly test Slovenian wild carnivores for Echinococcus species that can cause disease in humans.
Petra Bandelj +3 more
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Epidemiology of toxoplasmosis in felids and canids in Brazil: A brief One Health overview [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira: Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the obligate intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, which infects animals and humans worldwide. Felids are definitive hosts that eliminate oocysts, contaminating the environment, food, and water.
Andressa F. Silva +3 more
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The positive experience of encountering wolves in the wild
Conservation Science and Practice, 2020 Large carnivores often impact human livelihoods and well‐being. Previous research has mostly focused on the negative impacts of large carnivores on human well‐being but has rarely considered the positive aspects of living with large carnivores.
Ugo Arbieu +5 more
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Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 An increasing proportion of the world's poor is rearing livestock today, and the global livestock population is growing. Livestock predation by large carnivores and their retaliatory killing is becoming an economic and conservation concern.
Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi +6 more
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Exposure of dogs and wild carnivores to canine distemper virus, canine parvovirus, Leishmania infantum, and Toxoplasma gondii in the Xingu River basin, Brazilian Amazon: Prevalence, spatial distribution, and association with land cover types [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2023 Infectious diseases transmitted by domestic dogs can have important consequences for wildlife health. This study aimed to investigate the exposure to four selected pathogens in dogs and wild carnivores in six municipalities in the Xingu River Basin (Pará
Felipe FORNAZARI +4 more
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Circulation of diverse protoparvoviruses in wild carnivores, Italy
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020 Protoparvovirus is a monophyletic viral genus that includes the species Carnivore protoparvovirus-1 infecting domestic and wild carnivores. In this paper, the results of an epidemiological survey for Carnivore protoparvovirus-1 in wild carnivores in Italy are reported.
Linda A. Ndiana +15 more
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Comparative Ecology of Bartonella and Brucella Infections in Wild Carnivores
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 Phylogenetic sister clades Bartonella and Brucella within the order Rhizobiales present some common biological characteristics as well as evident differences in adaptations to their mammalian reservoirs.
Michael Kosoy, Irina Goodrich
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Community attitudes towards large carnivores are of central importance to their conservation in human-dominated landscapes. In this study, we evaluate community attitudes and perceptions towards the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), Amur leopard ...
Ying Li +8 more
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Frontiers in Tropical DiseasesBackgroundNematodes of the genus Trichinella are foodborne zoonotic pathogens that are widespread globally. These parasites have two epidemiological cycles, domestic and sylvatic, with the latter having wild carnivores as the main reservoirs of the ...
Lívia de Oliveira Andrade +13 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 Human-carnivore encounters are common where humans and wild carnivores share the same landscape. The frequency of such encounters gives insight regarding carnivore density and might correlate with human-carnivore conflict incidences.
Franco P. Mbise +5 more
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