Eco-Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Wild Ungulates
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 1203
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wildlife ecology and management; reintroduction biology; role of ungulates as disease reservoirs; wildlife monitoring; landscape ecology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: One Health; wildlife zoonoses; veterinary parasitology; wildlife genetics; conservation medicine; wildlife ecology and management; wildlife conservation and management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wild ungulates are reservoirs of zoonotic diseases and can be used as strategic sentinel species in terrestrial environments, providing early warning of potential risks to human, animal and environmental health. They have been used as bioindicators of some infectious diseases since they i) are ubiquitous, ii) have been increasing in number and geographical range, iii) have considerably large home ranges, iv) are widely hunted, being a source of food-borne diseases, and v) overlap their habitat and distribution area with livestock and humans, serving as a link between human-influenced settings and natural areas, enhancing disease spillover between the wildlife–livestock–human counterparts.
The pressing challenges of infectious and zoonotic diseases in ungulates (e.g., African swine fever in wild boar across Europe) demand an integrated framework that goes beyond the traditional analytical methods of analysis to include an ecological perspective. Understanding how environmental and socioeconomic factors can affect the epidemiology and dynamics of pathogens at an individual, local and regional level is an important step towards the sustainable control of infectious diseases.
This Special Issue aims to present recent research and reviews on the implications and dynamics of wildlife–human interactions, exploring the role that wild ungulates play in the emergence, maintenance, and dispersal of infectious diseases under the One Health framework in order to stimulate interest, understanding, and exploration of this important subject.
Dr. Rita Tinoco Torres
Dr. Ana Manuel Figueiredo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wild ungulates
- wildlife
- public health
- infectious diseases
- zoonoses
- pathogens
- epidemiology
- One Health
