ReviewVeterinary microbiology2017
The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism.
Review in Veterinary microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Livestock aggregated samples for monitoring viruses infecting animals and potentially zoonotic viral pathogens.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Integrating systems thinking for analyzing and designing national early warning surveillance for animal health: a perspective from Tanzania.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Advancing One Health surveillance with non-invasive biomonitoring: a review of persistent pesticide exposure assessment using external keratinized animal tissue.One health outlook · 2025Review
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- T-Racing: a modern tool for supporting epidemiological investigation in animal disease outbreaks in Italy.PloS one · 2025Article
- A systematic review on global zoonotic virus-associated mortality events in marine mammals.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Review
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- Silicone tags as an effective method of monitoring environmental contaminant exposures in a geographically diverse sample of dogs from the Dog Aging Project.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
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- Microplastics in Terrestrial Domestic Animals and Human Health: Implications for Food Security and Food Safety and Their Role as Sentinels.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Heavy Metal(loid) Accumulation in the Ovarian Tissue of Free-Ranging Queens and Bitches Inhabiting Highly Polluted Urban Environments.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Large-Scale Expansion of Porcine Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Based on Microcarriers System for Cultured Meat Production.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
This review discusses the utilization of wild or domestic animals as surveillance tools for monitoring naturally occurring environmental and human health hazards. Besides providing early warning to natural hazards, animals can also provide early warning to societal hazards like bioterrorism. Animals are ideal surveillance tools to humans because they share the same environment as humans and spend more time outdoors than humans, increasing their exposure risk. Furthermore, the biologically compressed lifespans of some animals may allow them to develop clinical signs more rapidly after exposure to specific pathogens. Animals are an excellent channel for monitoring novel and known pathogens with outbreak potential given that more than 60 % of emerging infectious diseases in humans originate as zoonoses. This review attempts to highlight animal illnesses, deaths, biomarkers or sentinel events, to remind human and veterinary public health programs that animal health can be used to discover, monitor or predict environmental health hazards, human health hazards, or bioterrorism. Lastly, we hope that this review will encourage the implementation of animals as a surveillance tool by clinicians, veterinarians, ecosystem health professionals, researchers and governments.
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