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Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
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Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 315
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Total price: R5,567
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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 first sections 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.
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