Cargando…

Emerging Animal Parasitic Diseases: A Global Overview and Appropriate Strategies for their Monitoring and Surveillance in Nigeria

Emerging animal parasitic diseases are reviewed and appropriate strategies for efficient monitoring and surveillance in Nigeria are outlined. Animal and human parasitic infections are distinguished. Emerging diseases have been described as those diseases that are being recognised for the first time...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Atehmengo, Ngongeh L, Nnagbo, Chiejina S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2014
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25328553
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874285801408010087
_version_ 1782340080448307200
author Atehmengo, Ngongeh L
Nnagbo, Chiejina S
author_facet Atehmengo, Ngongeh L
Nnagbo, Chiejina S
author_sort Atehmengo, Ngongeh L
collection PubMed
description Emerging animal parasitic diseases are reviewed and appropriate strategies for efficient monitoring and surveillance in Nigeria are outlined. Animal and human parasitic infections are distinguished. Emerging diseases have been described as those diseases that are being recognised for the first time or diseases that are already recorded but their frequency and/or geographic range is being increased tremendously. Emergence of new diseases may be due to a number of factors such as the spread of a new infectious agent, recognition of an infection that has been in existence but undiagnosed, or when it is realised that an established disease has an infectious origin. The terms could also be used to describe the resurgence of a known infection after its incidence had been known to have declined. Emerging infections are compounding the control of infectious diseases and huge resources are being channeled to alleviate the rising challenge. The diseases are numerous and include helminth, protozoal / rickettsial and entomological. A list of parasitic emerging diseases in Nigeria is included. Globally occurring emerging parasitic diseases are also outlined. Emerging and re-emerging infections can be brought about by many factors including climate change and global warming, changes in biodiversity, population mobility, movement of animals, globalisation of commerce/trade and food supply, social and cultural factors such as food eating habits, religious beliefs, farming practices, trade of infected healthy animals, reduction in the available land for animals, immune-suppressed host and host density and misuse or over use of some drugs leading to drug resistance.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-4200699
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2014
publisher Bentham Open
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-42006992014-10-17 Emerging Animal Parasitic Diseases: A Global Overview and Appropriate Strategies for their Monitoring and Surveillance in Nigeria Atehmengo, Ngongeh L Nnagbo, Chiejina S Open Microbiol J Article Emerging animal parasitic diseases are reviewed and appropriate strategies for efficient monitoring and surveillance in Nigeria are outlined. Animal and human parasitic infections are distinguished. Emerging diseases have been described as those diseases that are being recognised for the first time or diseases that are already recorded but their frequency and/or geographic range is being increased tremendously. Emergence of new diseases may be due to a number of factors such as the spread of a new infectious agent, recognition of an infection that has been in existence but undiagnosed, or when it is realised that an established disease has an infectious origin. The terms could also be used to describe the resurgence of a known infection after its incidence had been known to have declined. Emerging infections are compounding the control of infectious diseases and huge resources are being channeled to alleviate the rising challenge. The diseases are numerous and include helminth, protozoal / rickettsial and entomological. A list of parasitic emerging diseases in Nigeria is included. Globally occurring emerging parasitic diseases are also outlined. Emerging and re-emerging infections can be brought about by many factors including climate change and global warming, changes in biodiversity, population mobility, movement of animals, globalisation of commerce/trade and food supply, social and cultural factors such as food eating habits, religious beliefs, farming practices, trade of infected healthy animals, reduction in the available land for animals, immune-suppressed host and host density and misuse or over use of some drugs leading to drug resistance. Bentham Open 2014-10-2 /pmc/articles/PMC4200699/ /pubmed/25328553 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874285801408010087 Text en © Atehmengo and Nnagbo; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Article
Atehmengo, Ngongeh L
Nnagbo, Chiejina S
Emerging Animal Parasitic Diseases: A Global Overview and Appropriate Strategies for their Monitoring and Surveillance in Nigeria
title Emerging Animal Parasitic Diseases: A Global Overview and Appropriate Strategies for their Monitoring and Surveillance in Nigeria
title_full Emerging Animal Parasitic Diseases: A Global Overview and Appropriate Strategies for their Monitoring and Surveillance in Nigeria
title_fullStr Emerging Animal Parasitic Diseases: A Global Overview and Appropriate Strategies for their Monitoring and Surveillance in Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Emerging Animal Parasitic Diseases: A Global Overview and Appropriate Strategies for their Monitoring and Surveillance in Nigeria
title_short Emerging Animal Parasitic Diseases: A Global Overview and Appropriate Strategies for their Monitoring and Surveillance in Nigeria
title_sort emerging animal parasitic diseases: a global overview and appropriate strategies for their monitoring and surveillance in nigeria
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25328553
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874285801408010087
work_keys_str_mv AT atehmengongongehl emerginganimalparasiticdiseasesaglobaloverviewandappropriatestrategiesfortheirmonitoringandsurveillanceinnigeria
AT nnagbochiejinas emerginganimalparasiticdiseasesaglobaloverviewandappropriatestrategiesfortheirmonitoringandsurveillanceinnigeria