Molecular detection of zoonotic pathogens in animals that are transmissible to man
2011
Baldrias, L. R.
The health of human beings is closely tied to the health of animals, both domestic and wild. Directly affecting human health are more than 280 diseases called zoonoses that can be transmitted by direct or indirect means between man and animals. However, infections and parasitic diseases of livestock may kill the animals outright, may necessitate their destruction, or may reduce the animals' production of meat or milk. As such, diseases in animals also affect the public's health by reducing their available food supply. Zoonotic diseases are also an obstacle to international trade, as well as a serious financial drain on livestock owners and, more generally, on the economy of a community or country. Zoonotic diseases have broad repercussions on the health of a society. Vehicles transmitting infection from animal to man are often foods of animal origin. More that 80% of food-borne incidents are attributed to consumption of meat and poultry. Of these more than 95% of confirmed cases of food-borne disease outbreaks worldwide are of bacterial origin. This accounts for the projects' thrust towards zoonotic bacterial pathogens. Abstracts of the studies/ researchers conducted under the project are presented and discussed.
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