Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission - Childs, James E.; Mackenzie, John S.; Richt, Jürgen A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007)
Introduction: Conceptualizing and Partitioning the Emergence Process of Zoonotic Viruses from Wildlife to Humans -- Infectious Disease Modeling and the Dynamics of Transmission -- The Evolutionary Genetics of Viral Emergence -- Influenza Viruses in Animal Wildlife Populations -- Overviews of Pathogen Emergence: Which Pathogens Emerge, When and Why? -- Infection and Disease in Reservoir and Spillover Hosts: Determinants of Pathogen Emergence -- Henipaviruses: Emerging Paramyxoviruses Associated with Fruit Bats -- Emergence of Lyssaviruses in the Old World: The Case of Africa -- Tuberculosis: A Reemerging Disease at the Interface of Domestic Animals and Wildlife -- Emergence and Persistence of Hantaviruses -- Arenaviruses -- Ecological Havoc, the Rise of White-Tailed Deer, and the Emergence of Amblyomma americanum-Associated Zoonoses in the United States -- Bats, Civets and the Emergence of SARS -- Poxviruses and the Passive Quest for Novel Hosts -- Ebolavirus and Other Filoviruses -- Pre-spillover Prevention of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: What Are the Targets and What Are the Tools? -- Impediments to Wildlife Disease Surveillance, Research, and Diagnostics -- Collaborative Research Approaches to the Role of Wildlife in Zoonotic Disease Emergence -- Surveillance and Response to Disease Emergence.
Keywords: Medical virology; Emerging infectious diseases; Tropical medicine; Virology; Infectious Diseases; Tropical Medicine