Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission

Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission edited by James E. Childs, John S. Mackenzie, Jürgen A. Richt.

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Childs, James E. (Editor), Mackenzie, John S. (Editor), Richt, Jürgen A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 315
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Virology.
Infectious diseases.
Tropical medicine.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Conceptualizing and Partitioning the Emergence Process of Zoonotic Viruses from Wildlife to Humans
  • Infectious Disease Modeling and the Dynamics of Transmission
  • The Evolutionary Genetics of Viral Emergence
  • Influenza Viruses in Animal Wildlife Populations
  • Overviews of Pathogen Emergence: Which Pathogens Emerge, When and Why?
  • Infection and Disease in Reservoir and Spillover Hosts: Determinants of Pathogen Emergence
  • Henipaviruses: Emerging Paramyxoviruses Associated with Fruit Bats
  • Emergence of Lyssaviruses in the Old World: The Case of Africa
  • Tuberculosis: A Reemerging Disease at the Interface of Domestic Animals and Wildlife
  • Emergence and Persistence of Hantaviruses
  • Arenaviruses
  • Ecological Havoc, the Rise of White-Tailed Deer, and the Emergence of Amblyomma americanum-Associated Zoonoses in the United States
  • Bats, Civets and the Emergence of SARS
  • Poxviruses and the Passive Quest for Novel Hosts
  • Ebolavirus and Other Filoviruses
  • Pre-spillover Prevention of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: What Are the Targets and What Are the Tools?
  • Impediments to Wildlife Disease Surveillance, Research, and Diagnostics
  • Collaborative Research Approaches to the Role of Wildlife in Zoonotic Disease Emergence
  • Surveillance and Response to Disease Emergence.

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