Parasites Circulation Between the Three Domains of One Health
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Parasitic Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 187
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wildlife parasites; zoonotic diseases; environmental epidemiology
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Interests: wildlife health; parasites; microepidemiology; zoonoses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human activities strongly influence natural habitats. Animal farms and human settlements can affect the environment indirectly by environmental pollution and directly with encroachment into wildlife habitats. Contact between wildlife and the synanthropic habitats can transmit pathogens and can increase the health risk of humans. A shortage of resources, which must be shared by human, domestic animal, and wildlife populations, can amplify the damaging effects of different pathogens. The situation is worsened by climate change that can cause the occurrence of new pathogens or new phenotypes of old ones, and modifies the environment itself. The interface between wildlife and synanthropic habitats functions in a complex way with close interdependence of all sides, which needs a special approach. One Health provides the best methods to investigate the pathogen circulation between wildlife, domestic animals and human communities.
For this Special Issue, manuscripts on the following topics are encouraged for submission:
- Parasites of shared habitats;
- Anthelmintic resistance;
- Emerging parasites;
- Climate-sensitive parasitic infections;
- One Health approach to parasitic diseases;
- Livestock-health-related human–wildlife conflicts;
- Other aspects of the livestock–wildlife interface.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Parasitologia.
Dr. Gábor Nagy
Dr. Ágnes Csivincsik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- parasites of shared habitats
- anthelmintic resistance
- emerging parasites
- climate sensitive parasitic infections
- One Health approach to parasitic diseases
- livestock-health-related human-wildlife conflicts
- other aspects of the livestock-wildlife interface
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