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Zoonotic Parasites of Reptiles: A Crawling Threat
Reptiles are reservoirs of a wide range of pathogens, including many protozoa, helminths, pentastomids, and arthropod parasitic species, some of which may be of public health concern. In this review we discuss the zoonotic risks associated with human–reptile interactions. Increased urbanization and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7203055/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32448703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.04.014 |
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author | Mendoza-Roldan, Jairo A. Modry, David Otranto, Domenico |
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description | Reptiles are reservoirs of a wide range of pathogens, including many protozoa, helminths, pentastomids, and arthropod parasitic species, some of which may be of public health concern. In this review we discuss the zoonotic risks associated with human–reptile interactions. Increased urbanization and introduction of exotic species of reptile may act as drivers for the transmission of zoonotic parasites through the environment. In addition, being a part of human diet, reptiles can be a source of life-threatening parasitoses, such as pentastomiasis or sparganosis. Finally, reptiles kept as pets may represent a risk to owners given the possibility of parasites transmitted by direct contact or fecal contamination. Awareness of reptile-borne zoonotic parasitoses is important to advocate control, prevention, and surveillance of these neglected diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-72030552020-05-07 Zoonotic Parasites of Reptiles: A Crawling Threat Mendoza-Roldan, Jairo A. Modry, David Otranto, Domenico Trends Parasitol Article Reptiles are reservoirs of a wide range of pathogens, including many protozoa, helminths, pentastomids, and arthropod parasitic species, some of which may be of public health concern. In this review we discuss the zoonotic risks associated with human–reptile interactions. Increased urbanization and introduction of exotic species of reptile may act as drivers for the transmission of zoonotic parasites through the environment. In addition, being a part of human diet, reptiles can be a source of life-threatening parasitoses, such as pentastomiasis or sparganosis. Finally, reptiles kept as pets may represent a risk to owners given the possibility of parasites transmitted by direct contact or fecal contamination. Awareness of reptile-borne zoonotic parasitoses is important to advocate control, prevention, and surveillance of these neglected diseases. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-08 2020-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7203055/ /pubmed/32448703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.04.014 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Mendoza-Roldan, Jairo A. Modry, David Otranto, Domenico Zoonotic Parasites of Reptiles: A Crawling Threat |
title | Zoonotic Parasites of Reptiles: A Crawling Threat |
title_full | Zoonotic Parasites of Reptiles: A Crawling Threat |
title_fullStr | Zoonotic Parasites of Reptiles: A Crawling Threat |
title_full_unstemmed | Zoonotic Parasites of Reptiles: A Crawling Threat |
title_short | Zoonotic Parasites of Reptiles: A Crawling Threat |
title_sort | zoonotic parasites of reptiles: a crawling threat |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7203055/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32448703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.04.014 |
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