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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 315)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Wildlife and the zoonotic pathogens they reservoir are the source of most emerging infectious diseases of humans. AIDS, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, SARS, Monkeypox and the human ehrlichioses are a few examples of the devastating effect achieved by cross-species transmission of viral and bacterial pathogens of wildlife. Many factors contribute to the appearance and spread of a pathogen, including; changes in host/pathogen evolution and interaction, human demographics, behavior and technology, environmental factors, and the availability of health care and a public health infrastructure capable of providing surveillance and interventions aimed at disease prevention and control. Additionally, historical factors and the coalescence of particular circumstances modify the conditions by which pathogens and species have an opportunity to intermix, evolve and spread.
This volume provides an overview of zoonotic pathogen emergence with an emphasis on the role of wildlife. The firstsections of the book explore the mechanisms by which evolution, biology, pathology, ecology, history, and current context have driven the emergence of different zoonotic agents, the next sections provide specific example of disease emergence linked to wildlife, and the final section offers an overview of current methods directed at the surveillance, prevention and control of zoonotic pathogens at the level of the wildlife host and possible mechanisms to improve these activities. This book will be useful to microbiologists, ecologists, zoologists, entomologists as well as physicians and epidemiologists.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Center for Eco-Epidemiolog, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
James E. Childs
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Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
John S. Mackenzie
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Virus and Prion Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center USDA, USA
Jürgen A. Richt
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission
Editors: James E. Childs, John S. Mackenzie, Jürgen A. Richt
Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70962-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-70961-9Published: 13 August 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08996-1Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-70962-6Published: 23 July 2007
Series ISSN: 0070-217X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 524
Topics: Virology, Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine