Fate and toxicity of pharmaceuticals in water environment: an insight on their occurrence in South Asia

HK Khan, MYA Rehman, RN Malik - Journal of environmental management, 2020 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutically active compounds are newly recognized micropollutants which are
ubiquitous in aquatic environment mainly due to direct discharge of treated and untreated …

Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change

BA Jones, D Grace, R Kock, S Alonso… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
A systematic review was conducted by a multidisciplinary team to analyze qualitatively best
available scientific evidence on the effect of agricultural intensification and environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories

WB Karesh, A Dobson, JO Lloyd-Smith, J Lubroth… - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
More than 60% of human infectious diseases are caused by pathogens shared with wild or
domestic animals. Zoonotic disease organisms include those that are endemic in human …

Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments

HK Allen, J Donato, HH Wang… - Nature reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
Antibiotic-resistant pathogens are profoundly important to human health, but the
environmental reservoirs of resistance determinants are poorly understood. The origins of …

Pathogen spillover during land conversion

CL Faust, HI McCallum, LSP Bloomfield… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pathogen spillover from wildlife to domestic animals and humans, and the reverse, has
caused significant epidemics and pandemics worldwide. Although pathogen emergence …

Gut microbiomes of wild great apes fluctuate seasonally in response to diet

AL Hicks, KJ Lee, M Couto-Rodriguez, J Patel… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The microbiome is essential for extraction of energy and nutrition from plant-based diets and
may have facilitated primate adaptation to new dietary niches in response to rapid …

Infectious disease transmission and contact networks in wildlife and livestock

ME Craft - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

Population genomics of Escherichia coli in livestock-keeping households across a rapidly developing urban landscape

DM Muloi, BA Wee, DMH McClean, MJ Ward… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Quantitative evidence for the risk of zoonoses and the spread of antimicrobial resistance
remains lacking. Here, as part of the UrbanZoo project, we sampled Escherichia coli from …

Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases Producing E. coli in Wildlife, yet Another Form of Environmental Pollution?

S Guenther, C Ewers, LH Wieler - Frontiers in microbiology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Wildlife is normally not exposed to clinically used antimicrobial agents but can acquire
antimicrobial resistant bacteria through contact with humans, domesticated animals and the …

Reverse zoonotic disease transmission (zooanthroponosis): a systematic review of seldom-documented human biological threats to animals

AM Messenger, AN Barnes, GC Gray - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Research regarding zoonotic diseases often focuses on infectious diseases
animals have given to humans. However, an increasing number of reports indicate that …