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Título: | Quantification of the animal tuberculosis multi-host community offers insights for control |
Autor(es): | Santos, Nuno Richomme, Céline Nunes, Telmo Vicente, Joaquín Alves, Paulo C. de la Fuente, José Correia-Neves, M Boschiroli, María-Laura Delahay, Richard Gortázar, Christian |
Palavras-chave: | mycobacterium bovis disease eradication livestock wild animals stochastic models |
Data: | 28-Mai-2020 |
Editora: | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
Revista: | Pathogens |
Citação: | Santos, N.; Richomme, C.; Nunes, T.; Vicente, J.; Alves, P.C.; de la Fuente, J.; Correia-Neves, M.; Boschiroli, M.-L.; Delahay, R.; Gortázar, C. Quantification of the Animal Tuberculosis Multi-Host Community Offers Insights for Control. Pathogens 2020, 9, 421. |
Resumo(s): | Animal tuberculosis (TB) is a multi-host zoonotic disease whose prevalence in cattle herds in Europe has been increasing, despite a huge investment in eradication. The composition of the host community is a fundamental driver of pathogen transmission, and yet this has not been formally quantified for animal TB in Europe. We quantified multi-host communities of animal TB, using stochastic models to estimate the number of infected domestic and wild hosts in three regions: officially TB-free Central–Western Europe, and two largely TB-endemic regions, the Iberian Peninsula and Britain and Ireland. We show that the estimated number of infected animals in the three regions was 290,059–1,605,612 and the numbers of infected non-bovine domestic and wild hosts always exceeded those of infected cattle, with ratios ranging from 3.3 (1.3–19.6):1 in Britain and Ireland to 84.3 (20.5–864):1 in the Iberian Peninsula. Our results illustrate for the first time the extent to which animal TB systems in some regions of Europe are dominated by non-bovine domestic and wild species. These findings highlight the need to adapt current strategies for effective future control of the disease. |
Tipo: | Artigo |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/65861 |
DOI: | 10.3390/pathogens9060421 |
ISSN: | 2076-0817 |
Versão da editora: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/9/6/421 |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | ICVS - Artigos em revistas internacionais / Papers in international journals |
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