The emergence of zoonotic diseases : understanding the impact on animal and human health : workshop summary /
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
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Table of Contents:
- A perspective on emerging zoonoses
- Pathogenesis and virulence of zoonotic infections in humans
- The potential "bioweaponization" of zoonotic diseases
- Xenotransplantation
- Economic and trade implications of zoonotic diseases
- Variation and interspecies transmission of influenza A viruses
- Assessing the threat and the opportunities across the spectrum of zoonotic diseases
- Practices and policies to protect human health from antibiotic-resistant pathogens
- Ecological sources of zoonotic diseases
- Vectorborne zoonotic diseases
- Mathematical models and predictors of disease outbreaks
- The role of native birds and other wildlife on the emergence of zoonotic diseases
- Animal husbandry practices and risk factors, with particular reference to bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- Natural history of simian immunodeficiency viruses : clues to the emergence and virulence of AIDS viruses
- Pathology and early recognition of zoonotic disease outbreaks
- Molecular and other technologies for rapid diagnosis of zoonotic agents
- Methods and models for pathogen discovery
- Vaccines for emerging zoonoses : Marburg virus paradigm
- Public health laboratory surveillance
- Challenges of vectorborne disease surveillance from the local perspective : west nile virus experience
- Veterinary surveillance for zoonotic diseases in the United States
- Petborne zoonoses : detection and surveillance challenges
- Identification and containment of unknown and rare pathogens
- Foodborne zoonotic agents : salmonella enteritidis in eggs
- Legislative and policy concerns in protecting the nation's health.