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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298283403321

Titolo

Zoonoses - Infections Affecting Humans and Animals : Focus on Public Health Aspects / / edited by Andreas Sing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

94-017-9457-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 1143 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

579

610

616.9

616.9041

616.9883

636.089

Soggetti

Zoonoses

Animals as carriers of disease

Public health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Zoonoses in food-chain animals with public health relevance -- Part II Zoonoses in food-chain and domestic animals: focus on antibiotic resistance -- Part III Important zoonoses in non-food animals -- Part IV Zoonoses in domestic animals -- Part V Zoonoses of wildlife species -- Part VI Waterborne Zoonoses -- Part VII Emerging and re-emerging zoonoses -- Part VIII Nature is the greatest bioterrorist: Zoonotic pathogens as bioterroristic agents -- Part IX Controversial or non-resolved issues -- Part X Economic and ecological aspects of zoonoses -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The book will cover the most important zoonoses with a public health impact and debate actual developments in this field from a One Health perspective. The outline of the book follows a “setting” approach, i.e. special settings of zoonoses with a public health aspect, rather than presenting a simple textbook or encyclopedic character. Main chapters



will deal with zoonoses in the food chain including a special focus on the emerging issue of antibiotic resistance, with zoonoses in domestic and pet animals, in wildlife animal species (including bats as an important infectious agent multiplier), influenza and tuberculosis as most prominent zoonoses, and zoonotic pathogens as bioterroristic agents. Special interest chapters debate non-resolved and currently hotly debated zoonoses (e.g. M. Crohn/paratuberculosis, chronic botulism) as well as the economic and ecological aspects of zoonoses.