Role of India's wildlife in the emergence and re-emergence of zoonotic pathogens, risk factors and public health implications

Acta Tropica

Volumn 138, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-77

  Singh, B B ^a   Gajadhar, A A ^b  

^a GURU ANGAD DEV VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emerging diseases; India; Public health; Wildlife; Wildlife diseases; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; PATHOGEN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS; WILD POPULATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL HUNTING; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRUCELLOSIS; BUSH MEAT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FOOD INTAKE; FOREST; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; KYASANUR FOREST DISEASE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVESTOCK; MEAT; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TRICHINOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; LEISHMANIASIS; TRANSMISSION; VIRUS DISEASES; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSES;

INDIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; INDIA; LEISHMANIASIS; VIRUS DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84904250900     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.06.009     Document Type: Review

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