Zoonoses - Infections Affecting Humans and Animals

The book will cover the most important zoonoses with a public health impact and debate actual developments in this field from a One Health perspective. The outline of the book follows a "setting" approach, i.e. special settings of zoonoses with a public health aspect, rather than presenting a simple textbook of an encyclopedic character. Main chapters will deal with zoonoses in the food chain including a special focus on the emerging issue of antibiotic resistance, with zoonoses in domestic and pet animals, in wildlife animal species (including bats as an important infectious agent multiplier), influenza and tuberculosis as most prominent zoonoses, and zoonotic pathogens as bioterroristic agents. Special interest chapters debate non-resolved and currently hotly debated zoonoses (e.g. M. Crohn/paratuberculosis, chronic botulism) as well as the economic and ecological aspects of zoonoses.

One Health perspective: books dealing with zoonoses from a One Health perspective under a broader and interdisciplinary scale do not exist

Part I Zoonoses in food-chain animals with public health relevance.- Part II Zoonoses in food-chain and domestic animals: focus on antibiotic resistance.- Part III Important zoonoses in non-food animals.- Part IV Zoonoses in domestic animals.- Part V Zoonoses of wildlife species.- Part VI Waterborne Zoonoses.- Part VII Emerging and re-emerging zoonoses.- Part VIII Nature is the greatest bioterrorist: Zoonotic pathogens as bioterroristic agents.- Part IX Controversial or non-resolved issues.- Part X Economic and ecological aspects of zoonoses.- Index.