Individual differences in contact rate can arise from host, group and landscape
heterogeneity and can result in different patterns of spatial spread for diseases in wildlife …

Diseases that affect both wild and domestic animals can be particularly difficult to prevent,
predict, mitigate, and control. Such multi-host diseases can have devastating economic …

Salmonella has been detected in the feces of many wildlife species, including raccoons
(Procyon lotor), but little is known about the epidemiology of Salmonella in wildlife living in …

The study assessed Salmonella carriage in wild boars (Sus scrofa) and compared their
isolates with those recovered from the domestic swine population of the same area of …

This study evaluated the prevalence of potential pathogenic bacteria (mainly Campylobacter
spp., but also Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella) in wild boar (Sus scrofa) and the …

Intended as an introduction for veterinarians and other animal health professionals
interested in and wishing to apply epidemiological methods in their day-to-day work, this …

The increasing availability of novel molecular techniques has transformed the study of
human health and disease epidemiology. However, uptake of such approaches has been …

Although wild pig populations are known to sometimes be infected by Salmonella, the
situation in Australia has received little attention and few population-based, planned studies …

Feral pigs are wild animal reservoirs of infectious pathogens transmissible to other species,
all of which are transmissible to domestic pigs. The objective of this study was to detect the …

Numerous bacterial and parasitic pathogens may be transmitted through food and included
in that group are zoonotic pathogens that not only proliferate within domesticated animals …