Sentences with phrase «animal reservoirs for»

With the emergence of Ebola virus from bats and hantaviruses from rodents, investigators say identifying the other species infected with HAV provides novel insight into the evolution of HAV and how it spread to humans, and highlights the utility of analyzing animal reservoirs for risk assessment of emerging viruses.

A new study challenges the widely held view that mice are the main animal reservoir for Lyme disease in the United States.

Limited data are available about the ecology of SARS - CoV, but bats are thought to be the animal reservoir for the virus which may be transmitted to small mammals with exposure to these small animals as the source of human infections [10].

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She says mice and chipmunks are critical reservoirs for the two pathogens, so ticks that have fed on these animals are more likely to be co-infected.

Additionally, bats serve as reservoirs for a multitude of viruses, which raises the question of how these animals are able to tune cytosolic DNA sensing and innate immune activation.

By testing all those samples, I identified microbes inhabiting the animal reservoirs and focused on those that showed up in the hunters» blood, making them candidates for firing up human disease.

CARMICHAEL REPLIES: Vaccinating animals is an intriguing idea and one that is clearly more applicable for vector - borne diseases with nonhuman reservoirs (for example, vaccinating dogs to control both canine and human visceral leishmaniasis transmission).

Recent work shows the bacteria may hang on to the genes for CTX - M even when no longer exposed to antibiotics, suggesting that superbugs can survive in the wild, with animals acting as a reservoir.

«Animal disease reservoirs are extremely important for global public health.

«Our study exemplifies the utility of looking beyond phylogenetic criteria alone when conducting risk assessment for emerging RNA viruses and the need to include functional, ecologic, and pathogenic analyses of animal reservoirs,» says Jan Felix Drexler, M.D., the study's corresponding author and a professor of medicine at the Institute of Virology at the University of Bonn Medical Centre in Germany.

Gomes - Solecki's vaccine wouldn't address the spread of other tick - borne pathogens, nor target other animals such as deer or skunks that act as reservoirs for Lyme disease.

The fact that this bacterium is found in cattle means that these animals can be a reservoir for human tuberculosis and that humans can become infected with both M. bovis and M. tuberculosis by drinking unpasteurised milk and eating meat that has not been properly tested.

And unlike with some mosquito - borne diseases (like West Nile virus), animals in the Miami area don't seem to act as reservoirs for Zika.

Among the South African crocodiles tested, PFAA levels were highest for animals tested from Flag Boshielo Dam, a reservoir on the Oliphants River, just upstream from Kruger National Park.

But don't mistake the technosphere's contents for just «stuff»; it also encompasses human organizations and the environments that keep society functioning, like farmlands, seafloor excavations, domesticated animals and reservoirs.

«Floor coverings are a major reservoir for indoor and outdoor allergens, including animal dander and dust mites,» explains Jonathan Bernstein, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati in the Division of Immunology and Allergy.

In North America the skunk, raccoon, fox, and bat are important reservoirs for the virus, whereas in Europe, foxes are the main source of infection for people and other animals.

These facts are of particular importance to veterinarians, physicians, diagnosticians, public health officials, and pet owners as an increasing number of animals have been identified as reservoir host for zoonotic Bartonella species.

An annually vaccinated dog can be unprotected for up to nine months of the year; and infected dogs — irrespective of vaccination — are hidden infective reservoirs, capable of spreading lepto to humans and other animals.

While the stomach of each animal acts as a reservoir for the body, allowing food to be ingested as a meal rather than continuously throughout the day, a dog's stomach expands more readily.

Here in Phoenix, as in many urban areas, we have a high coyote population, and coyotes are an important potential reservoir for heartworm Infected animals brought in from other parts of the country are also reservoirs.

Long - term goals include year - round flea prevention for all pets in the household, limiting the pet's exposure to feral animals and outdoor wildlife that can be reservoirs for fleas, and treating the environment once a year with an IGR.

A decade of controversy after Winkler wrote, the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians conceded in the 1994 edition of their annual Compendium of Animal Rabies Control that «Continuous and persistent government - funded programs for trapping or poisoning wildlife are not cost effective in reducing wildlife rabies reservoirs on a statewide basis.»

The One Health paradigm for global health recognizes that most new human infectious diseases will emerge from animal reservoirs.

The FWCC itself acknowledges the following: cats are the most common carriers of rabies among domestic animals, and can transmit rabies to wildlife such as raccoons, skunks an foxes; feline leukemia virus, a leading cause of death due to infectious disease in cats, has been reported in a mountain lion, a close relative of the endangered Florida panther; domestic cats were identified as one possible reservoir host for feline panleukopenia, which has been discovered in the Florida panther.

What's more, the biome is an excellent reservoir for biodiversity, hosting 4000 native plant species and more than 400 species of animals.