ArticleEmerging health threats journal2010
Ecological approaches to informing public health policy and risk assessments on emerging vector-borne zoonoses.
Article in Emerging health threats journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- A standardized method for the construction of a tick drag/flag sampling approach and evaluation of sampling efficacy.Experimental & applied acarology · 2019Article
- Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on Lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Climate change and habitat fragmentation drive the occurrence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, at the northeastern limit of its distribution.Evolutionary applications · 2014Article
- Emergence of west nile virus lineage 2 in europe: a review on the introduction and spread of a mosquito-borne disease.Frontiers in public health · 2014Review
- Climate change and public health policy: translating the science.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Review
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Abstract
Pathogens associated with vector-borne zoonoses occur in enzootic cycles within nature. They are driven by a combination of vertebrate host and invertebrate vector population dynamics, which in turn respond to changes in environmental stimuli. Human involvement in these cycles, and hence the occurrence of human disease, is often to act as incidental host. From a public health perspective our ability to better predict human outbreaks of these diseases and prepare intervention and mitigation strategies relies on understanding the natural cycle of pathogen transmission. This requires consideration of, for example, invertebrate and vertebrate ecology and biology, climatology, land use and habitat change. Collectively, these can be referred to as medical entomology and medical ecology. This article reviews the importance for inclusion of such disciplines when assessing the public health risk from vector-borne zoonoses and summarizes the possible future challenges and driving forces for changes in vector status and vector-borne zoonoses emergence, with a particular focus on a UK and European context.
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