zoonoses

Summary

Summary: Diseases of non-human animals that may be transmitted to HUMANS or may be transmitted from humans to non-human animals.

Webpages

  1. thesaurus of parasitology --hierarchical listing
    www.personal.kent.edu/~mzeng/template/thesauri/miller/hier.h ...
  2. title page for the overall tutorial
    www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/zoonoses/
  3. veterinary public health - parasites
    www.tiho-hannover.de/einricht/who/forum_vph/home/home_e/aufg ...
  4. veterinary public health - parasites
    www.tiho-hannover.de/einricht/who/forum_vph/home/home_e/aufg ...
  5. infectious diseases - public health agency of canada
    www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/index-eng.php
  6. veterinary public health - parasites
    www.tiho-hannover.de/einricht/who/forum_vph/home/home_e/aufg ...
  7. cdr weekly - zoonoses reports - volume 16 no 44
    www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/pages/zoonoses.htm
  8. lamson library » disease : identification, prevention, and control
    library.plymouth.edu/browse/?auth=Hamann%2C+Barbara+P
  9. msp :: wild animal training :: small mammals
    www.hehd.clemson.edu/MSP/wild_animal_training/wild_small_mam ...
  10. vet & med web links
    www.lib.purdue.edu/vetmed/vmllinks.html

Research Grants

  1. HIV-CNS Diseases and Parasitic Zoonoses in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
    HELENE helene-carabin@ouhscedu ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CARABIN; Fiscal Year: 2009
  2. Public Health and the Agricultural Rural Ecosystem (PHARE): 6th International Sym
    Barbara C Lee; Fiscal Year: 2008
  3. HOST COMPETENCE FACTORS AFFECT ARBOVIRUS TRANSMISSION
    William K Reisen; Fiscal Year: 2003
  4. Anti-apoptotic gene therapy: Islet allotransplantation
    Nick Giannoukakis; Fiscal Year: 2002
  5. Natural SIV Reservoirs and Human Zoonotic Risk
    Beatrice H Hahn; Fiscal Year: 2008
  6. Landscape Ecology and Mapping of Ehrlichial Pathogens
    Michael C Wimberly; Fiscal Year: 2005
  7. Risk for Future Outbreaks of Henipaviruses in South Asia
    Jonathan H Epstein; Fiscal Year: 2008
  8. Risk for Future Outbreaks of Henipaviruses in South Asia
    Jonathan H Epstein; Fiscal Year: 2007
  9. Evolution of the Bordetellae from Commensals to Pathogens
    Eric T Harvill; Fiscal Year: 2008
  10. Synthetic Scaffolds for Bladder Regeneration
    Sundararajan V Madihally; Fiscal Year: 2008

Publications

  1. Serologic survey of cats and dogs during an epidemic of West Nile virus infection in humans
    James C Kile
    CDC, Epidemic Intelligence Service, 1600 Clifton Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 226:1349-53
  2. Public health. Pathogen surveillance in animals
    T Kuiken
    Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Science 309:1680-1
  3. Animal coronaviruses: what can they teach us about the severe acute respiratory syndrome?
    L J Saif
    Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
    Rev Sci Tech 23:643-60
  4. Mycobacterium bovis infection and control in domestic livestock
    D V Cousins
    Australian Reference Laboratory for Bovine Tuberculosis, Agriculture Western Australia, Locked Bag 4, Bentley Delivery Centre, Bentley WA 6893, Australia
    Rev Sci Tech 20:71-85
  5. Canine vaccination--providing broader benefits for disease control
    Sarah Cleaveland
    Wildlife and Emerging Disease Section, Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK
    Vet Microbiol 117:43-50
  6. Perspectives for rabies control and eradication from domestic species in developing countries
    O P Larghi
    Dev Biol (Basel) 119:205-12
  7. Predicting the impact of climate change on livestock disease in Great Britain
    P Gale
    Veterinary Laboratories Agency-Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey
    Vet Rec 162:214-5
  8. Hantaviruses: etiologic agents of rare, but potentially life-threatening zoonotic diseases
    Charles H Calisher
    Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 222:163-6
  9. Epidemiology of flea infestation of ruminants in Libya
    J F Kaal
    Department of Small Animal Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
    Vet Parasitol 141:313-8
  10. Implications of tuberculosis in African wildlife and livestock
    Anita L Michel
    Tuberculosis Laboratory of the ARC Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 969:251-5

Scientific Experts

Detail Information

Webpages119 found, 30 most recent shown here

  1. thesaurus of parasitology --hierarchical listing
    www.personal.kent.edu/~mzeng/template/thesauri/miller/hier.h ...
  2. title page for the overall tutorial
    www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/zoonoses/
  3. veterinary public health - parasites
    www.tiho-hannover.de/einricht/who/forum_vph/home/home_e/aufg ...
  4. veterinary public health - parasites
    www.tiho-hannover.de/einricht/who/forum_vph/home/home_e/aufg ...
  5. infectious diseases - public health agency of canada
    www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/index-eng.php
  6. veterinary public health - parasites
    www.tiho-hannover.de/einricht/who/forum_vph/home/home_e/aufg ...
  7. cdr weekly - zoonoses reports - volume 16 no 44
    www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/pages/zoonoses.htm
  8. lamson library » disease : identification, prevention, and control
    library.plymouth.edu/browse/?auth=Hamann%2C+Barbara+P
  9. msp :: wild animal training :: small mammals
    www.hehd.clemson.edu/MSP/wild_animal_training/wild_small_mam ...
  10. vet & med web links
    www.lib.purdue.edu/vetmed/vmllinks.html
  11. direction maladies infectieuses et transmissibles
    www.pasteur.be/_en/indexa898.html?page=botulism
  12. population medicine faculty | ontario veterinary college | university of guelph
    www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/cfmx/popm/faculty/
  13. togaviridae- classification and taxonomy
    www.stanford.edu/group/virus/toga/class.html
  14. the university of the west indies, st. augustine campus - school of veterinary medicine
    sta.uwi.edu/vet/undergraduate_dvm_programme.asp
  15. ps23/ps019: avian diseases transmissible to humans
    edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PS019
  16. college of veterinary medicine
    www.vet.ksu.edu/depts/dmp/teach/gradcur.htm
  17. print article: dog of a tapeworm infection is creeping up again
    www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/art ...
  18. microbiology and infectious disease course @einstein
    cobweb.aecom.yu.edu/ooe/courses/ID/index.html
  19. johne's disease--mycobacterium avium subspec paratuberculosis: a debilitating enteric disease of ruminants 2002
    www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/johnes/2002.htm
  20. polycystic bile duct disease
    www.addl.purdue.edu/newsletters/2004/spring/finaldx.htm
  21. in your language: ideas - victorian government health information, australia
    www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/diseases/language
  22. zoonoses | surveillance | monitoring | monitoring and enforcement | the food safety authority of ireland
    www.fsai.ie/monitoring_and_enforcement/monitoring/surveillan ...
  23. animal diseases and your health (print version
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/print/animaldiseasesandyourhealt ...
  24. cdr weekly - news archives
    www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/archive04/news/news3804.htm
  25. poxviridae
    www.stanford.edu/group/virus/pox/pox.html
  26. occupational health and safety
    www.ahc.umn.edu/rar/safety.html
  27. mammalia
    diglib1.amnh.org/resources/bibliography/bibliographies/mamma ...
  28. animal diseases and your health: medlineplus
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/animaldiseasesandyourhealth.html
  29. zoology - 400 level
    www.pdn.ac.lk/sci/new/cunits/zl400.htm

Research Grants15

  1. HIV-CNS Diseases and Parasitic Zoonoses in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
    HELENE helene-carabin@ouhscedu ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CARABIN; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..For the pilot project, we will focus on neurocysticercosis and cerebral toxocariasis as the parasitic zoonoses of interest...
  2. Public Health and the Agricultural Rural Ecosystem (PHARE): 6th International Sym
    Barbara C Lee; Fiscal Year: 2008
    ..Numerous specific topics in each theme will be addressed, such as agricultural health and safety, food safety, zoonoses, particulate and chemical exposures, health determinants, risk assessment and water quality...
  3. HOST COMPETENCE FACTORS AFFECT ARBOVIRUS TRANSMISSION
    William K Reisen; Fiscal Year: 2003
    Mosquito-borne encephalitis viruses are endemic zoonoses that continue to pose a health risk to the residents of California and other affected areas of the United States...
  4. Anti-apoptotic gene therapy: Islet allotransplantation
    Nick Giannoukakis; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..The latter may not become a clinical reality anytime soon primarily because of concerns for zoonoses. Allografts are ethically acceptable, yet they face both alloimmune rejection as well as autoimmune destruction ..
  5. Natural SIV Reservoirs and Human Zoonotic Risk
    Beatrice H Hahn; Fiscal Year: 2008
    ..The documentation of ongoing zoonoses, along with the identification of the infecting virus strain, would have obvious public health implications and ..
  6. Landscape Ecology and Mapping of Ehrlichial Pathogens
    Michael C Wimberly; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..The geographic ranges of many tick species have expanded over the past several decades, and several new tickborne zoonoses have emerged...
  7. Risk for Future Outbreaks of Henipaviruses in South Asia
    Jonathan H Epstein; Fiscal Year: 2008
    ..Veterinarians can provide important input into research on emerging zoonoses, but specific training programs for these are lacking...
  8. Risk for Future Outbreaks of Henipaviruses in South Asia
    Jonathan H Epstein; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Veterinarians can provide important input into research on emerging zoonoses, but specific training programs for these are lacking...
  9. Evolution of the Bordetellae from Commensals to Pathogens
    Eric T Harvill; Fiscal Year: 2008
    ..that will allow us to examine some of the most important questions regarding the evolution of infectious diseases and the emergence of human pathogens from zoonoses. Public Health Relevance: This Public Health Relevance is not available.
  10. Synthetic Scaffolds for Bladder Regeneration
    Sundararajan V Madihally; Fiscal Year: 2008
    ..induction of hyperacute rejection due to potential mismatch of xenografts and the possible transmission of zoonoses due to xenografts have obviated the need for alternative repair options...
  11. Synthetic Scaffolds for Bladder Regeneration
    Sundararajan V Madihally; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..induction of hyperacute rejection due to potential mismatch of xenografts and the possible transmission of zoonoses due to xenografts have obviated the need for alternative repair options...
  12. Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program
    Denise B Steinlein; Fiscal Year: 2005
    DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Bartonella species are emerging zoonoses. This project examines the infection and coinfection prevalence of Bartonella species, Borrelia burgdorferi, and Anaplasma phagocytophilum, in field-captured ..
  13. Risk of Viral Emergence from Bats
    Peter Daszak; Fiscal Year: 2008
    DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): Emerging zoonoses are a significant threat to global public health and our economies. The majority are caused by pathogens that emerge with increasing frequency from wildlife hosts (e.g...
  14. Environmental Biostatistics Training Grant
    Lance A Waller; Fiscal Year: 2008
    ..g., quantifying environmental impacts on vector-borne diseases and zoonoses such as rabies and Lyme disease, including investigations of the phylo-geography or spatial patterns of ..
  15. Environmental Biostatistics Training Grant
    Lance A Waller; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..g., quantifying environmental impacts on vector-borne diseases and zoonoses such as rabies and Lyme disease, including investigations of the phylo-geography or spatial patterns of ..

Publications62

  1. Serologic survey of cats and dogs during an epidemic of West Nile virus infection in humans
    James C Kile
    CDC, Epidemic Intelligence Service, 1600 Clifton Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 226:1349-53
    ..Further investigation of the potential use of stray dogs as sentinel indicators for WNV infection and the potential risk of human exposure is warranted...
  2. Public health. Pathogen surveillance in animals
    T Kuiken
    Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Science 309:1680-1
  3. Animal coronaviruses: what can they teach us about the severe acute respiratory syndrome?
    L J Saif
    Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
    Rev Sci Tech 23:643-60
    ..Such examples illustrate the need for communication and collaboration between the veterinary and medical communities to understand and control emerging zoonotic diseases of the 21st Century...
  4. Mycobacterium bovis infection and control in domestic livestock
    D V Cousins
    Australian Reference Laboratory for Bovine Tuberculosis, Agriculture Western Australia, Locked Bag 4, Bentley Delivery Centre, Bentley WA 6893, Australia
    Rev Sci Tech 20:71-85
    ..Mycobacterium bovis infects other animal species, both domesticated and wild, and this range of hosts may complicate attempts to control or eradicate the disease in cattle...
  5. Canine vaccination--providing broader benefits for disease control
    Sarah Cleaveland
    Wildlife and Emerging Disease Section, Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK
    Vet Microbiol 117:43-50
    ..The tools and delivery systems are all available--all that is needed is the political will to free the world from the ongoing tragedy of these diseases...
  6. Perspectives for rabies control and eradication from domestic species in developing countries
    O P Larghi
    Dev Biol (Basel) 119:205-12
  7. Predicting the impact of climate change on livestock disease in Great Britain
    P Gale
    Veterinary Laboratories Agency-Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey
    Vet Rec 162:214-5
  8. Hantaviruses: etiologic agents of rare, but potentially life-threatening zoonotic diseases
    Charles H Calisher
    Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 222:163-6
  9. Epidemiology of flea infestation of ruminants in Libya
    J F Kaal
    Department of Small Animal Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
    Vet Parasitol 141:313-8
    ..Infested farm animals often presented with excoriation, alopecia, pruritis and hyperkeratitis particularly on the lower limbs. These signs are consistent with the generation of flea-bite hypersensitivity...
  10. Implications of tuberculosis in African wildlife and livestock
    Anita L Michel
    Tuberculosis Laboratory of the ARC Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 969:251-5
    ....
  11. The public health and clinical significance of Giardia and Cryptosporidium in domestic animals
    R C Andrew Thompson
    WHO Collaborating Centre for the Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitic Infections, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
    Vet J 177:18-25
    ..In addition, advances have been made in elucidating mechanisms associated with pathogenesis, whereas only limited progress has been achieved in the areas of chemotherapy and prophylaxis...
  12. The rabies situation in the Middle East
    A Seimenis
    WHO Mediterranean Zoonoses Control Centre, Athens, Greece
    Dev Biol (Basel) 131:43-53
    ..Coordinated actions to confront the serious rabies public health and economic problems should be undertaken by affected countries, with the assistance of international organisations, under conditions that are suitable for each country...
  13. Emerging pathogen Cyclospora cayetanensis infection in Nepal
    J B Sherchand
    Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Department of Microbiology-Parasitology/Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
    Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 32:143-50
    ..These results suggest that these sources may be important in the transmission of this parasitosis. However, further studies will be required to obtain definitive answers on transmission...
  14. Dogs as sources and sentinels of parasites in humans and wildlife, northern Canada
    Amanda L Salb
    Calgary Zoo Animal Health Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Emerg Infect Dis 14:60-3
    A minimum of 11 genera of parasites, including 7 known or suspected to cause zoonoses, were detected in dogs in 2 northern Canadian communities...
  15. The rabies situation in Far East Asia
    Z F Fu
    Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30606, USA
    Dev Biol (Basel) 131:55-61
    ..It is thus most importantforthese countries to initiate mass vaccination campaigns in dog populations in order to stop the occurrence of human rabies in Far East Asia...
  16. Vaccines for emerging infections
    N Marano
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    Rev Sci Tech 26:203-15
    ..Vaccination of vector/reservoir species, when efficacious vaccines are available, offers significant advantages to combating zoonotic human disease...
  17. Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2005
    Jesse D Blanton
    Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 229:1897-911
    ..8%, and rabies in domestic animals decreased 37.5%. One case of human rabies was reported from Mississippi during 2005. This case was submitted by the state to the CDC's unexplained deaths project and diagnosed as rabies retrospectively...
  18. Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2004
    John W Krebs
    Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 227:1912-25
    ..In Wisconsin, a teenager contracted rabies from a bat bite and became the first known person to survive rabies despite not having received rabies vaccine prior to symptom onset...
  19. Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2007
    Jesse D Blanton
    Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 233:884-97
    ..One human rabies case was reported from Minnesota during 2007. Although typing of the rabies virus variant in this case was not possible, an investigation of this case indicated a bat as the most likely source of exposure...
  20. Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2006
    Jesse D Blanton
    Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 231:540-56
    ..The cases in Indiana and Texas were attributed to bat rabies virus variants, whereas the case in California was attributed to an exposure to a dog in the Philippines...
  21. Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2002
    John W Krebs
    Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 223:1736-48
    ..California, Tennessee, and Iowa each reported a case of rabies in a human being during 2002. All cases of rabies in humans were the result of infection with bat variants of the rabies virus...
  22. Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2003
    John W Krebs
    Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 225:1837-49
    ..The California and Puerto Rico cases were the result of infections with bat and dog/mongoose rabies virus variants, respectively, and each patient had a history of a bite...
  23. The long haul: risks associated with livestock transport
    Michael Greger
    Public Health and Animal Agriculture, The Humane Society of the United States, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    Biosecur Bioterror 5:301-11
  24. [Avian influenza: eradication from commercial poultry is still not in sight]
    W J M Landman
    Gezondheidsdienst voor Dieren, Arnsbergstraat 7, 7418 EZ Deventer
    Tijdschr Diergeneeskd 129:782-96
    ..In the Western world, the renewed interest in free-range housing carries a threat for future outbreaks. The growing ethical objections to the largescale culling of birds require a different approach to the eradication of avian influenza...
  25. [Distribution and circulation of influenza viruses in nature]
    Hiroshi Kida
    Department of Disease Control, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine
    Nippon Rinsho 61:1865-71
    ....
  26. Dogs' parasite and zoonotic risk: from old to new "emergencies" in the North-West of Italy
    E Ferroglio
    Dipartimento di Produzioni Animali, Epidemiologia ed Ecologia, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria Università di Torino. Via L. Da Vinci, 44 10095 Grugliasco (TO, Italy
    Parassitologia 48:115-6
    ..infantum. The identity of PCR-RFLP patterns from 3 human clinical cases and from the dogs of one of them allows us to confirm the autochthonous origin of these cases...
  27. Medico-legal considerations of canine leishmaniosis in Italy: an overview of an emerging disease with reference to the buying and selling of dogs
    A Passantino
    Department of Veterinary Medical Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Messina, Polo Universitario Annunziata, 98168 Messina, Italy
    Rev Sci Tech 25:1111-23
    ....
  28. Antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli strains isolated from urine of women with cystitis or pyelonephritis and feces of dogs and healthy humans
    Mark R Sannes
    Medical Service, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 225:368-73
    ..coli strains causing infections in humans. On the contrary the data suggest that dogs conceivably could acquire resistant E. coli strains from humans...
  29. The evolving transmission pattern of Rift Valley fever in the Arabian Peninsula
    Shamsudeen F Fagbo
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 969:201-4
    ..The potential risks within this period as well as other peculiar ecological factors are discussed...
  30. Hepatitis E virus infection among domestic animals in eastern China
    W Zhang
    Shanghai Key Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, China
    Zoonoses Public Health 55:291-8
    ..This suggested that the authorities should pay more attention to the prevalence of HEV in eastern China...
  31. Protecting human and ecological health under viral threats in Asia
    S Matsui
    Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo ku, Kyoto City, Japan
    Water Sci Technol 51:91-7
    ..It is easy to provide good sanitation practices for human, pigs and chickens, introducing collection and treatment of excreta. Our modern water technology can find good solutions for the problem...
  32. Continuing Mycobacterium bovis transmission from animals to humans in New Zealand
    M G Baker
    Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd ESR, Porirua, New Zealand
    Epidemiol Infect 134:1068-73
    ..These results suggest a low level of ongoing M. bovis transmission from animal reservoirs to humans in New Zealand...
  33. Hydatid control in Australia: where it began, what we have achieved and where to from here
    David J Jenkins
    Australian Hydatid Control and Epidemiology Program, 12 Mildura Street, Fyshwick, ACT 2609, Australia
    Int J Parasitol 35:733-40
    ..The application of a new recombinant vaccine for sheep in control campaigns and the use of praziquantel baits for controlling infection in dingoes around bush campsites and picnic areas is discussed...
  34. Animal reservoirs for extended spectrum beta-lactamase producers
    A Carattoli
    Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
    Clin Microbiol Infect 14:117-23
    ..The increasing occurrence of ESBL producers in animals is highlighted and discussed in this review with respect to the circulation of these resistance traits also among human pathogens...
  35. The rabies situation in Central Asia
    K N Gruzdev
    Federal Centre for Animal Health FGI ARRIAH, Vladimir, Russia
    Dev Biol (Basel) 131:37-42
    ....
  36. Tuberculosis: a reemerging disease at the interface of domestic animals and wildlife
    M V Palmer
    Bacterial Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, 2300 Dayton Avenue, Ames, IA 50010, USA
    Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 315:195-215
    ..bovis from livestock until transmission between wildlife and domestic animals is halted. Such an endeavor will require a collaborative effort between agricultural, wildlife, environmental and political interests...
  37. The role of wildlife in emerging and re-emerging zoonoses
    R G Bengis
    Veterinary Investigation Centre, PO Box 12, Skukuza, Kruger National Park, 1350, South Africa
    Rev Sci Tech 23:497-511
    ..In this paper, the authors discuss the causal factors associated with the emergence or re-emergence of these zoonoses, and highlight a selection to provide a composite view of their range, variety and origins...
  38. Wildlife, exotic pets, and emerging zoonoses
    Bruno B Chomel
    Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
    Emerg Infect Dis 13:6-11
    ..Wildlife can also be a source for reemergence of previously controlled zoonoses. Although the discovery of such zoonoses is often related to better diagnostic tools, the leading causes of their ..
  39. Nipah virus--a potential agent of bioterrorism?
    Sai Kit Lam
    Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Antiviral Res 57:113-9
    ..From pigs, the virus was also transmitted to other animals such as dogs, cats, and horses. The Nipah virus has the potential to be considered an agent of bioterrorism...
  40. Occurrence of highly fluoroquinolone-resistant and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in domestic animals
    Ann E Lin
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
    Can J Microbiol 53:925-9
    ..These findings are consistent with a role for animal carriage in the dissemination of important human pathogens in the community...
  41. Distribution of Cryptosporidium and Giardia spp. in selected species of protected and game mammals from North-Eastern Poland
    Anna Paziewska
    Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
    Ann Agric Environ Med 14:265-70
    ..parvum genotype 2 (zoonotic). The results show the important role of examined species in maintaining the natural sources of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia spp. infections in the environment...
  42. Emergence of lyssaviruses in the Old World: the case of Africa
    L H Nel
    Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa
    Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 315:161-93
    ..Significantly, less than ideal cross-reactivity with modern biologicals used for veterinary and public health interventions is a major cause for concern among these emerging viral agents...
  43. Emerging enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, causes and effects of the rise of a human pathogen
    L Beutin
    National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli NRL E coli, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment BfR, Diedersdorfer Weg 1, D 12277 Berlin, Germany
    J Vet Med B Infect Dis Vet Public Health 53:299-305
    ..Development of new vaccines and probiotics may serve as future tools to control the spread of STEC in animals and humans...
  44. Can rabies be eradicated?
    C E Rupprecht
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    Dev Biol (Basel) 131:95-121
    ....
  45. Updates on cystic echinococcosis (CE) in Italy
    G Garippa
    Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Sezione Parassitologia e Malattie Parassitarie, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
    Parassitologia 48:57-9
    ..3% in sheep and 41.5% in cattle, with a fertility of 10.3% and 2.6%, respectively. CE was found also in 9.4% of pigs, with fertility of 6.5%. The G1 strain was recovered in sheep and cattle while the G7 in pigs...
  46. Risk analysis and bovine tuberculosis, a re-emerging zoonosis
    Eric Etter
    CIRAD, EMVT Department, Epidemiology and Ecology Unit, 34098 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1081:61-73
    ..This analysis represents a management support and decision tool in the study and the control of zoonotic BTB...
  47. Contamination of dog hair with eggs of Toxocara canis
    Gillian Roddie
    Research and Innovation Office, O Reilly Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
    Vet Parasitol 152:85-93
    ..These studies show that stray dogs, particularly puppies, potentially harbour considerable numbers of eggs on their hair, at densities far higher than those reported in the soil or the general environment...
  48. Current control strategies targeting sources of echinococcosis in Japan
    M Kamiya
    Department of Biosphere and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Systems, Rakuno Gakuen University, Bunkyodai-Midorimachi 582, Ebetsu, Hokkaido 069-8501, Japan
    Rev Sci Tech 25:1055-65
    ..This model might provide new ideas for Veterinary Services worldwide in their efforts to control other related zoonotic diseases...
  49. Emerging viral encephalitides in dogs and cats
    Bradley L Njaa
    Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, 226 McElroy Hall, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
    Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract 38:863-78, ix
    ..All are the result of penetration through presumed species barriers and all are considered zoonoses or possible zoonotic pathogens...
  50. Prevalence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia species in animals in irrigation catchments in the southwest of Australia
    Suzi McCarthy
    Division of Health Sciences, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Science, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
    Exp Parasitol 118:596-9
    ..This is the first finding of Giardia Assemblage A in native marsupials and birds and indicates that marsupials and possibly birds may potentially be a reservoir of zoonotic Giardia...
  51. Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from Swiss veal calves at slaughter
    E Di Labio
    Federal Veterinary Office, Schwarzenburgstrasse 155, 3003 Bern, Switzerland
    Zoonoses Public Health 54:344-52
    ..To ensure food safety, veal calves should be included in the national monitoring programme for antimicrobial resistance in farm animals. By improving farm management and calf husbandry the prevalence of resistance may be reduced...
  52. The role of dogs in transmission of gastrointestinal parasites in a remote tea-growing community in northeastern India
    Rebecca J Traub
    World Health Organization Collaborating Center for the Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitic Infections, Division of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 67:539-45
    The prevalence and risk factors associated with canine gastrointestinal parasitic zoonoses and the role of dogs in the mechanical transmission of human Ascaris infection was examined in three tea estates in Assam, India...
  53. Cat scratch disease and other zoonotic Bartonella infections
    Bruno B Chomel
    Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 224:1270-9
  54. Distribution of Toxocara infection in the environment and in definitive and paratenic hosts in Estonia
    Heli Talvik
    Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 62, Tartu 51014, Estonia
    Acta Vet Hung 54:399-406
    ..Under our conditions, stray and free-roaming cats are the main contaminators of the environment with Toxocara eggs. Children playing in sandpits are the main risk group for larval toxocarosis...
  55. Prevalence of Toxocara cati and other parasites in cats' faeces collected from the open spaces of public institutions: Buenos Aires, Argentina
    I E Sommerfelt
    Cátedra de Veterinaria en Salud Pública, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av Chorroarín 280, 1427 Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Vet Parasitol 140:296-301
    ..075-0.254). The cat population that inhabits these public green spaces contaminates the environment, thus transforming them into dangerous spaces with a variable rate for the human population that spends time in these places...
  56. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
    Ronald D Warner
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430-0001, USA
    J Am Vet Med Assoc 221:1413-7
  57. Colonisation site of E coli O157 in cattle
    David L Gally
    Vet Rec 152:307