zoonotic disease
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- Leptospirosis is one of the most common zoonotic diseases that are potentially fatal but it is quite under-diagnosed and under-reported.
- Anthrax is a worldwide zoonotic disease.
- For millennia, human beings have been plagued by pathogens originating in other animal species.
- Salivarian trypanosomes are extracellular parasites causing anthroponotic and zoonotic infections.
- West Nile virus (WNV) is an important zoonotic pathogen maintained in a natural transmission cycle between mosquitoes and birds as reservoir hosts.
- The majority of emerging infectious disease agents affecting human are RNA viruses that originate from animals.
- Blastocystis is a zoonotic protozoan that infects a wide range of animals, including humans and rodents.
- Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a zoonotic and obligate intracellular bacterium transmitted by ticks.
- Methicillin-resistant and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA and VRSA) are zoonotic life-threatening pathogens, and their presence in food raises a public health concern.
- The recent fatal case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in an 8-year-old boy in February 2013 as well as infections in horses in May 2013 has prompted us to write about an earlier non-fatal exposure.
- Cryptosporidium parvum is an endemic, zoonotic coccidian parasitosis that is highly prevalent in third-world countries where waterborne fecal contamination of food and drink or person-to-person contact with oocysts are the most common methods of transmission of the enteric protozoan.
- The H9N2 avian influenza virus is not only an important zoonotic pathogen, it can also easily recombine with other subtypes to generate novel reassortments, such as the H7N9 virus.
- Mycoplasma ovis is an emerging zoonotic pathogen with a worldwide distribution and can cause mild to severe hemolytic anemia, icterus, and poor weight gain in animals.