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Neglected vector-borne zoonoses in Europe: Into the wild.

  • Tomassone L Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Braccini 2, 10095, Grugliasco (Torino), Italy. Electronic address: laura.tomassone@unito.i.
  • Berriatua E Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Regional Campus of International Excellence "Campus Mare Nostrum", Universidad de Murcia, 30100, Murcia, Spain.
  • De Sousa R Instituto Nacional de Saude Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Centro de estudos de Vectores e Doenças Infecciosas, Av. da Liberdade no. 5, 2965, Águas de Moura, Portugal.
  • Duscher GG Department of Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Veterinaerplatz 1, 1210, Vienna, Austria.
  • Mihalca AD Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăștur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, Romania.
  • Silaghi C National Centre for Vector Entomology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 266a, CH-8057, Zurich, Switzerland; Institute of Infectology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Südufer 10, D-17493, Greifswald Isle of Riems, Germany.
  • Sprong H National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM), Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 3721 MA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
  • Zintl A UCD Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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  • 2018-02-11
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  • Veterinary parasitology. - 2018
Arthropod vectors
Surveillance
Wildlife
Zoonoses
Animals
Animals, Wild
Arthropod Vectors
Babesia
Babesiosis
Bartonella
Bartonella Infections
Epidemiological Monitoring
Europe
Humans
Leishmania
Leishmaniasis
Neglected Diseases
Rodentia
Zoonoses
English Wild vertebrates are involved in the transmission cycles of numerous pathogens. Additionally, they can affect the abundance of arthropod vectors. Urbanization, landscape and climate changes, and the adaptation of vectors and wildlife to human habitats represent complex and evolving scenarios, which affect the interface of vector, wildlife and human populations, frequently with a consequent increase in zoonotic risk. While considerable attention has focused on these interrelations with regard to certain major vector-borne pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and tick-borne encephalitis virus, information regarding many other zoonotic pathogens is more dispersed. In this review, we discuss the possible role of wildlife in the maintenance and spread of some of these neglected zoonoses in Europe. We present case studies on the role of rodents in the cycles of Bartonella spp., of wild ungulates in the cycle of Babesia spp., and of various wildlife species in the life cycle of Leishmania infantum, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Rickettsia spp. These examples highlight the usefulness of surveillance strategies focused on neglected zoonotic agents in wildlife as a source of valuable information for health professionals, nature managers and (local) decision-makers. These benefits could be further enhanced by increased collaboration between researchers and stakeholders across Europe and a more harmonised and coordinated approach for data collection.
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  • English
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