The emergence of zoonotic diseases understanding the impact on animal and human health : workshop summary (National Academy Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
A perspective on emerging zoonoses -- Pathogenesis and virulence of zoonotic infections in humans -- The potential "bioweaponization" of zoonotic diseases -- Xenotransplantation -- Economic and trade implications of zoonotic diseases -- Variation and interspecies transmission of influenza A viruses -- Assessing the threat and the opportunities across the spectrum of zoonotic diseases -- Practices and policies to protect human health from antibiotic-resistant pathogens -- Ecological sources of zoonotic diseases -- Vectorborne zoonotic diseases -- Mathematical models and predictors of disease outbreaks -- The role of native birds and other wildlife on the emergence of zoonotic diseases -- Animal husbandry practices and risk factors, with particular reference to bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- Natural history of simian immunodeficiency viruses : clues to the emergence and virulence of AIDS viruses -- Pathology and early recognition of zoonotic disease outbreaks -- Molecular and other technologies for rapid diagnosis of zoonotic agents -- Methods and models for pathogen discovery -- Vaccines for emerging zoonoses : Marburg virus paradigm -- Public health laboratory surveillance -- Challenges of vectorborne disease surveillance from the local perspective : west nile virus experience -- Veterinary surveillance for zoonotic diseases in the United States -- Petborne zoonoses : detection and surveillance challenges -- Identification and containment of unknown and rare pathogens -- Foodborne zoonotic agents : salmonella enteritidis in eggs -- Legislative and policy concerns in protecting the nation's health
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