Importance of road-killed vertebrates as sentinel hosts within the active surveillance of selected pathogens
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Importance of road-killed vertebrates as sentinel hosts within the active surveillance of selected pathogens
Original language description
In the last decades, several novel diseases emerged and the distribution of many pathogens and their vectors changed. Within the One health concept, zoonoses are one of the most important groups of the emerging diseases. Vectors, reservoir hosts and distribution of the diseases need to be studied in all over the world. However, the vast majority of the available surveillances are focused basicaly on the geographic distribution of arthropod vectors, while information about the reservoir hosts species, their prevalence of infections and related potentional risk for humans and domestic animals are limited. Our research is focused on using selected road-killed vertebrates for detecting mainly tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) in the Czech Republic. The main idea of our project is focused on effort to test the capacity of urban wildlife for surveillance of the pathogen presence in cities. Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus and E. roumanicus), squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) and blackbirds (Turdus merula) were chosen as representatives of wild animals that thrive in urban areas, that are ordinarily infested by ticks and seems to be suitable hosts for many important zoonotic pathogens. In the first year of our project, we have already proved that this method can be very usefull for TBPs surveillance. From 50 road kill carcasses of selected host species, 49 specimens were found to be positive at least for one TBP (above all Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.) by using the real-time PCR method.
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Classification
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O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40301 - Veterinary science
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V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů