Zoonoses Infections Affecting Humans and Animals

About this book

This second fully revised and extended edition of Zoonoses: Infections Affecting Humans and Animals covers the most important pathogens impacting both human and animal public health and debates current developments in this interdisciplinary field from a One Health perspective. Following a "setting" approach, the individual chapters each review zoonoses occurring in a specific group of animals, such as production animals, pets or wildlife, or in a defined ecosystem. A focus is put on zoonoses emerging along the food chain and on antibiotic resistance as an increasing challenge in infectious disease management. Special interest chapters debate non-resolved and currently hotly debated zoonoses, foremost COVID-19, influenza, Crohn/paratuberculosis and chronic botulism, also taking into account the economic and ecological aspects of zoonotic disease outbreaks.

This second edition includes brand-new chapters on emerging pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, chlamydia and helminths, it reviews historic zoonoses, provides additional insights into pathogens of reptiles and highlights significant neglected tropical diseases.

This reference work is a must-read for researchers, health professionals and students in Microbiology and Veterinary Medicine. The book's ambition to spread knowledge on zoonoses and on strategies on how to tackle them complies with the United Nations Sustainable Goals, in particular Goal 3 – Good Health and Well-Being.

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Biography

Prof Andreas Sing, MD PhD MA DTM&H is currently Head of the Bavarian State Institute of Health and the Dept. of Public Health Microbiology at the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL). He studied Human Medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg/Germany and the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA/USA as well as Sociology & Political Sciences at the University of Freiburg. He obtained a PhD degree in Sociology at the University of Augsburg/Germany. After a post-doc training at the Dept. of Innate Immunity/LPS at the Max Planck-Institute of Immunobiology he obtained his DTM&H at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London/UK, habilitated in Medical Microbiology & Hygiene with studies on Yersinia Innate Immunity at the Max von Pettenkofer-Institute of the Ludwigs-Maximilian-University (LMU) of Munich and became board-certified in Medical Microbiology. He teaches Medical Microbiology at the LMU, is Head of the German National Consiliary Laboratory on Diphtheria as well as Deputy Head of the National Reference Lab on Borreliosis in the Robert Koch-Institute-run German reference lab network. He is a member of ESGBOR (European Study Group of Lyme borreliosis) and founder member of ESGPHM (European Study Group of Public Health Microbiology) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infections Diseases (ESCMID) and serves as a supervisor for the EPIET and EUPHEM fellowship organized by the ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control).