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Wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in Austria
Austria's mammalian wildlife comprises a large variety of species, acting and interacting in different ways as reservoir and intermediate and definitive hosts for different pathogens that can be transmitted to pets and/or humans. Foxes and other wild canids are responsible for maintaining zoono...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25830102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2014.12.001 |
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author | Duscher, Georg G. Leschnik, Michael Fuehrer, Hans-Peter Joachim, Anja |
author_facet | Duscher, Georg G. Leschnik, Michael Fuehrer, Hans-Peter Joachim, Anja |
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description | Austria's mammalian wildlife comprises a large variety of species, acting and interacting in different ways as reservoir and intermediate and definitive hosts for different pathogens that can be transmitted to pets and/or humans. Foxes and other wild canids are responsible for maintaining zoonotic agents, e.g. Echinococcus multilocularis, as well as pet-relevant pathogens, e.g. Hepatozoon canis. Together with the canids, and less commonly felids, rodents play a major role as intermediate and paratenic hosts. They carry viruses such as tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), bacteria including Borrelia spp., protozoa such as Toxoplasma gondii, and helminths such as Toxocara canis. The role of wild ungulates, especially ruminants, as reservoirs for zoonotic disease on the other hand seems to be negligible, although the deer filaroid Onchocerca jakutensis has been described to infect humans. Deer may also harbour certain Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains with so far unclear potential to infect humans. The major role of deer as reservoirs is for ticks, mainly adults, thus maintaining the life cycle of these vectors and their distribution. Wild boar seem to be an exception among the ungulates as, in their interaction with the fox, they can introduce food-borne zoonotic agents such as Trichinella britovi and Alaria alata into the human food chain. |
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spelling | pubmed-43567392015-03-31 Wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in Austria Duscher, Georg G. Leschnik, Michael Fuehrer, Hans-Peter Joachim, Anja Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl Article Austria's mammalian wildlife comprises a large variety of species, acting and interacting in different ways as reservoir and intermediate and definitive hosts for different pathogens that can be transmitted to pets and/or humans. Foxes and other wild canids are responsible for maintaining zoonotic agents, e.g. Echinococcus multilocularis, as well as pet-relevant pathogens, e.g. Hepatozoon canis. Together with the canids, and less commonly felids, rodents play a major role as intermediate and paratenic hosts. They carry viruses such as tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), bacteria including Borrelia spp., protozoa such as Toxoplasma gondii, and helminths such as Toxocara canis. The role of wild ungulates, especially ruminants, as reservoirs for zoonotic disease on the other hand seems to be negligible, although the deer filaroid Onchocerca jakutensis has been described to infect humans. Deer may also harbour certain Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains with so far unclear potential to infect humans. The major role of deer as reservoirs is for ticks, mainly adults, thus maintaining the life cycle of these vectors and their distribution. Wild boar seem to be an exception among the ungulates as, in their interaction with the fox, they can introduce food-borne zoonotic agents such as Trichinella britovi and Alaria alata into the human food chain. Elsevier 2014-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4356739/ /pubmed/25830102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2014.12.001 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Duscher, Georg G. Leschnik, Michael Fuehrer, Hans-Peter Joachim, Anja Wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in Austria |
title | Wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in Austria |
title_full | Wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in Austria |
title_fullStr | Wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in Austria |
title_full_unstemmed | Wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in Austria |
title_short | Wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in Austria |
title_sort | wildlife reservoirs for vector-borne canine, feline and zoonotic infections in austria |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25830102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2014.12.001 |
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