Crossing the interspecies barrier: opening the door to zoonotic pathogens

Christian Gortazar; Leslie A Reperant; Thijs Kuiken; José de la Fuente; Mariana Boadella; Beatriz Martínez-Lopez; Francisco Ruiz-Fons; Agustin Estrada-Peña; Christian Drosten; Graham Medley; Richard Ostfeld; Townsend Peterson; Kurt C VerCauteren; Christian Menge; Marc Artois; Constance Schultsz; Richard Delahay; Jordi Serra-Cobo; Robert Poulin; Frederic Keck; A Alonso Aguirre; Heikki Henttonen; Andrew P Dobson; Susan Kutz; Juan Lubroth; Atle Mysterud

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004129

Crossing the interspecies barrier: opening the door to zoonotic pathogens

PLoS Pathog. 2014 Jun 19;10(6):e1004129. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004129. eCollection 2014 Jun.

Authors

Christian Gortazar¹, Leslie A Reperant², Thijs Kuiken², José de la Fuente³, Mariana Boadella¹, Beatriz Martínez-Lopez⁴, Francisco Ruiz-Fons¹, Agustin Estrada-Peña⁵, Christian Drosten⁶, Graham Medley⁷, Richard Ostfeld⁸, Townsend Peterson⁹, Kurt C VerCauteren¹⁰, Christian Menge¹¹, Marc Artois¹², Constance Schultsz¹³, Richard Delahay¹⁴, Jordi Serra-Cobo¹⁵, Robert Poulin¹⁶, Frederic Keck¹⁷, A Alonso Aguirre, Heikki Henttonen¹⁸, Andrew P Dobson¹⁹, Susan Kutz²⁰, Juan Lubroth²¹, Atle Mysterud²²

Affiliations

¹ SaBio IREC (CSIC-Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Ciudad Real, Spain.
² Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
³ SaBio IREC (CSIC-Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Ciudad Real, Spain; Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America.
⁴ Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance, Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America.
⁵ Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Pathology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
⁶ Universitäts-Klinikum Bonn und Medizinische Fakultät, Bonn, Germany.
⁷ School of life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
⁸ Harvard Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁹ Biodiversity Institute University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America.
¹⁰ USDA/APHIS/WS/National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
¹¹ Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Jena, Germany.
¹² Université de Lyon, Campus Vétérinaire de Lyon, VetAgro Sup, Marcy L'Étoile, France.
¹³ Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
¹⁴ National Wildlife Management Centre, Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Nympsfield, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
¹⁵ IRBIO and Departement de Biologia Animal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁶ Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
¹⁷ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire D'anthropologie Sociale, Paris, France.
¹⁸ Vantaa Unit, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, Finland.
¹⁹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
²⁰ Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
²¹ Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations-Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
²² Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animal Husbandry / trends
Animals
Climate Change
Disease Reservoirs
Disease Vectors
Global Health* / trends
Health Transition*
Host Specificity*
Humans
Models, Biological*
Risk Assessment
Urbanization / trends
Zoonoses / epidemiology*
Zoonoses / microbiology
Zoonoses / parasitology
Zoonoses / virology

Grants and funding

This research was funded by EU FP7 grant ANTIGONE (#278976). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.