Infectious Diseases in Wild Animals
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 1086
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ehrlichiosis; canine morbillivirus; equine infectious anemia virus; infectious diseases; equine arbovirosis
Interests: emerging tick-borne pathogens; hemotropic mycoplasmas; Anaplasma; Ehrlichia; zoonotic vector-borne diseases
Interests: tick-host-pathogen interactions; emerging tick-borne pathogens; Anaplasma; Ehrlichia; epidemiology; tick microbiome; α-Gal
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Dear Colleagues,
The conservation of wild animals is a prominent demand worldwide. Against this trend, the increased promiscuous maintenance of domestic and wild animal species and their growing contacts mainly caused by their sharing the same space, as well as their close relationship with humans—often under terrible sanitary conditions—are exacerbating public health problems. In fact, this situation favors the emergence of different infectious diseases that can cause terrible outbreaks and may even lead to health catastrophes for animals or humans. The health crisis currently experienced in the world due to the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans and its relationship with wild animals living in China is a significant example. It shows that the interaction of domestic, wild, and synanthropic animals with human beings has led to an overlapping between human and animal health demands. Considering the various situations of environmental imbalance which are changing the habits of vertebrates and of invertebrate organisms, e.g., mosquitoes and ticks, this problem is becoming even wider.
This Special Issue of Veterinary Sciences on “Infectious Diseases in Wild Animals” invites original articles, brief communications, and reviews on infectious diseases in animals. We hope that this collection will stimulate a closer collaboration between researchers in the veterinary and medical sciences to address this important topic.
Prof. Dr. Daniel de Aguiar
Dr. Rafael Felipe da Costa Vieira
Dr. Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz
Guest Editors
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