Surveillance, monitoring and surveys of wildlife diseases: a public health and conservation approach

摘要: During the past decades interest in surveillance and monitoring of wildlife diseases has grown internationally. The main reasons could be following: a) increased size many wild populations that host pathogens affecting humans; b) economic relevance some disease; c) role played by infections/diseases conservation endangered species. According to above-described epidemiological situations there is an international need develop appropriate strategies for early detection, surveys infectious wildlife. paper reviews assumptions on which disease surveillance, survey are, or should be, based. conclusions are: 1) are long lasting activities implemented when legal bases available; 2) a introduced free area more likely detected using passive rather than active surveillance; 3) definition "suspect case" largely affects sensitivity whole thus suspected case modulated according level risk; 4) both monitoring, sampling plays important role. any surveillance/monitoring system highly dependent from unit we define as: " subpopulation, whose can maintain pathogen during defined inter-sampling interval ". Such merges ecological, mathematical approaches aimed controlling eradicating infections domestic wildlife; 5) When dealing with conservation-disease interface, standardized risk assessment procedure including mitigation become rule. Download complete issue.