[HTML][HTML] Urbanization and disease emergence: dynamics at the wildlife–livestock–human interface

JM Hassell, M Begon, MJ Ward, EM Fèvre - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2017 - cell.com
Urbanization is characterized by rapid intensification of agriculture, socioeconomic change,
and ecological fragmentation, which can have profound impacts on the epidemiology of …

The pathogenesis of Ebola virus disease

L Baseler, DS Chertow, KM Johnson… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
For almost 50 years, ebolaviruses and related filoviruses have been repeatedly reemerging
across the vast equatorial belt of the African continent to cause epidemics of highly fatal …

Viral zoonotic risk is homogenous among taxonomic orders of mammalian and avian reservoir hosts

N Mollentze, DG Streicker - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The notion that certain animal groups disproportionately maintain and transmit viruses to
humans due to broad-scale differences in ecology, life history, and physiology currently …

Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases

BA Han, JP Schmidt, SE Bowden… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The increasing frequency of zoonotic disease events underscores a need to develop
forecasting tools toward a more preemptive approach to outbreak investigation. We apply …

Reservoirs and transmission routes of leprosy; A systematic review

T Ploemacher, WR Faber, H Menke… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) and the
more recently discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis (M. lepromatosis). The two leprosy …

Predicting reservoir hosts and arthropod vectors from evolutionary signatures in RNA virus genomes

SA Babayan, RJ Orton, DG Streicker - Science, 2018 - science.org
Identifying the animal origins of RNA viruses requires years of field and laboratory studies
that stall responses to emerging infectious diseases. Using large genomic and ecological …

The evolutionary genomics of host specificity in Staphylococcus aureus

M Matuszewska, GGR Murray, EM Harrison… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Staphylococcus aureus is an important human bacterial pathogen that has a cosmopolitan
host range, including livestock, companion and wild animal species. Genomic and …

Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health

AC Fagre, LE Cohen, EA Eskew, M Farrell… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic has led to increased concern over transmission of pathogens
from humans to animals, and its potential to threaten conservation and public health. To …

Do cryptic reservoirs threaten gambiense-sleeping sickness elimination?

P Büscher, JM Bart, M Boelaert, B Bucheton… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense causes human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Between
1990 and 2015, almost 440000 cases were reported. Large-scale screening of populations …

Ecological interventions to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover

SH Sokolow, N Nova, KM Pepin… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Spillover of a pathogen from a wildlife reservoir into a human or livestock host requires the
pathogen to overcome a hierarchical series of barriers. Interventions aimed at one or more …