Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Wildlife Disease Ecology
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 5041
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epidemiology; microbiology; molecular biology; antimicrobial resistance
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Interests: tick-borne diseases; zoonosis; wildlife epidemiology
Interests: foodborne parasites; foodborne pathogens; antimicrobial resistance; game meat
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, we face serious challenges increasingly related to climate change, habitat loss, changes in land use and a continuous evolution of the interface between wildlife and anthropic environment. These aspects, together with health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance and emerging pathogens, draw attention to new aspects of the ecology of diseases in wildlife populations.
In this context, the application of multidisciplinary studies is necessary and increasingly required, aiming to provide new information from a One Health perspective.
For this reason, we feel the need to create this space to give a voice to those working in the wildlife-related fields and who, through their commitment and work, have generated new useful data on infectious diseases (bacteriology, virology, parasitology) of wildlife and game meat safety. Given the growing interest on these topics to tackle the new challenges of our time, in this Special Issue, we welcome both original research papers and reviews focusing on wildlife infectious diseases, disease ecology at the wildlife–domestic animal/human interface and food safety issues related to game meat.
Dr. Camilla Smoglica
Dr. Laura Grassi
Dr. Selene Rubiola
Dr. Giulia Graziosi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- disease ecology
- bacteriology
- virology
- parasitology
- food safety
- epidemiology
- prevention
- control
- zoonoses
- cross-species transmission
- wildlife
- wild–domestic animal interface
- One Health
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