Vector-borne diseases – constant challenge for practicing veterinarians: recommendations from the CVBD World Forum
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The human-animal bond has been a fundamental feature of mankind's history for millennia. The first, and strongest of these, man's relationship with the dog, is believed to pre-date even agriculture, going back as far as 30,000 years. It remains at least as powerful today. Fed by the changing nature of the interactions between people and their dogs worldwide and the increasing tendency towards close domesticity, the health of dogs has never played a more important role in family life. Thanks to developments in scientific understanding and diagnostic techniques, as well as changing priorities of pet owners, veterinarians are now able, and indeed expected, to play a fundamental role in the prevention and treatment of canine disease, including canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs).The CVBDs represent a varied and complex group of diseases, including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, borreliosis, dirofilariosis, ehrlichiosis, leishmaniosis, rickettsiosis and thelaziosis, with new syndromes being uncovered every year. Many of these diseases can cause serious, even life-threatening clinical conditions in dogs, with a number having zoonotic potential, affecting the human population.Today, CVBDs pose a growing global threat as they continue their spread far from their traditional geographical and temporal restraints as a result of changes in both climatic conditions and pet dog travel patterns, exposing new populations to previously unknown infectious agents and posing unprecedented challenges to veterinarians.In response to this growing threat, the CVBD World Forum, a multidisciplinary group of experts in CVBDs from around the world which meets on an annual basis, gathered in Nice (France) in 2011 to share the latest research on CVBDs and discuss the best approaches to managing these diseases around the world.As a result of these discussions, we, the members of the CVBD Forum have developed the following recommendations to veterinarians for the management of CVBDs.
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- Authors
- Baneth, G., Bourdeau, P., Bourdoiseau, G., Bowman, D., Breitschwerdt, E., Capelli, G., Cardoso, L., Dantas-Torres, F., Day, M., Dedet, J.-P., Dobler, G., Ferrer, L., Irwin, P., Kempf, V., Kohn, B., Lappin, M., Little, S., Maggi, R., Miró, G., Naucke, T., Oliva, G., Otranto, D., Penzhorn, B., Pfeffer, M., Roura, X., Sainz, A., Shaw, S., Shin, S., Solano-Gallego, L., Straubinger, R., Traub, R., Trees, A., Truyen, U., Demonceau, T., Fitzgerald, R., Gatti, D., Hostetler, J., Kilmer, B., Krieger, K., Mencke, N., Mendão, C., Mottier, L., Pachnicke, S., Rees, B., Siebert, S., Stanneck, D., Tarancón Mingote, M., von Simson, C., & Weston, S.
- Affiliations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Oniris (FR)
- Cornell University (US)
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IT)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Écologie, Génétique, Évolution et Contrôle (FR)
- Institut für Mikrobiologie der Bundeswehr (DE)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Murdoch University (AU)
- Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Colorado State University (US)
- Oklahoma State University (US)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
- University of Hohenheim (DE)
- University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
- Leipzig University (DE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Bayer (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Bayer (Italy) (IT)
- Bayer (Canada) (CA)
- Elanco Animal Health (Germany) (DE)
- Bayer (Portugal) (PT)
- Bayer (Germany) (DE)
- Bayer (Australia) (AU)
- Bayer (New Zealand) (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Mottier, Lourdes
- ORCID
- Baneth, Gad
- Bourdeau, Patrick
- Bourdoiseau, Gilles
- Bowman, Dwight
- Breitschwerdt, Edward
- Capelli, Gioia
- Day, Michael
- Dobler, Gerhard
- Ferrer, Lluís
- Irwin, Peter
- Kempf, Volkhard
- Lappin, Michael
- Little, Susan
- Maggi, Ricardo
- Miró, Guadalupe
- Otranto, Domenico
- Pfeffer, Martin
- Roura, Xavier
- Straubinger, Reinhard
- Traub, Rebecca
- Trees, Alexander
- Truyen, Uwe
- Hostetler, Joe
- Stanneck, Dorothee
- Venue
- Parasites & Vectors
- Published
- 2012-03-20
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 55-55
- ISSN
- 1756-3305 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3359183
- OpenAlex
- W2142866731
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- 78
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Parasitology › Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Parasitology › Bartonella species infections research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
- Keywords
- canine vector-borne diseases, dogs, zoonoses, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, borreliosis, dirofilariasis, ehrlichiosis, leishmaniasis, rickettsial infection, thelaziosis, climate change, pet travel, disease management recommendations, human-animal bond
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Bacterial Infections, Dog Diseases, Dogs, Parasitic Diseases, Animal, Veterinary Medicine
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