U.S. Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
ORCID IDs
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5111-9322
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8585-1215
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3314-8223
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8045-5213
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-8628
Date of this Version
5-20-2019
Citation
Sokolow, S.H., N. Nova, K.M. Pepin, A.J. Peel, J.R.C. Pulliam, K. Manlove, P.C. Cross, D.J. Becker, R.K. Plowright, H. McCallum, and G.A. De Leo. 2019. Ecological interventions to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374(1782):20180342. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0342
Abstract
Spillover of a pathogen from awildlife reservoir into a human or livestock host requires the pathogen to overcome a hierarchical series of barriers. Interventions aimed at one or more of these barriers may be able to prevent the occurrence of spillover. Here, we demonstrate how interventions that target the ecological context in which spillover occurs (i.e. ecological interventions) can complement conventional approaches like vaccination, treatment, disinfection and chemical control. Accelerating spillover owing to environmental change requires effective, affordable, durable and scalable solutions that fully harness the complex processes involved in cross-species pathogen spillover.
This article is part of the theme issue ‘Dynamic and integrative approaches to understanding pathogen spillover’.
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