Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe - a questionnaire survey on three selected host-pathogen combinations
APHAEA project partners who participated in the survey: Pelayo Acevedo (Spain), Andreas Agreiter (Italy), Anna Bajer (Poland), Alex Barlow (United Kingdom), Charalambos Billinis (Greece), Franck Boue (France), Andrea Cadamuro (Italy), Maria S. Calabrese (Italy), Gioia Capelli (Italy), Isabel Lopes d...
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Animal abundance Diagnostic methods Europe Harmonization Questionnaire Wildlife Infecções Sistémicas e Zoonoses Sonnenburg, J. Ryser-Degiorgis, M.P. Kuiken, T. Ferroglio, E. Ulrich, R.G. Conraths, F. Gortázar, C. Staubach, C. APHAEA project partners Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe - a questionnaire survey on three selected host-pathogen combinations |
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APHAEA project partners who participated in the survey: Pelayo Acevedo (Spain), Andreas Agreiter (Italy), Anna Bajer (Poland), Alex Barlow (United Kingdom), Charalambos Billinis (Greece), Franck Boue (France), Andrea Cadamuro (Italy), Maria S. Calabrese (Italy), Gioia Capelli (Italy), Isabel Lopes de Carvalho (Portugal), Adriano Casulli (Italy), Ermanno Cetto (Italy), Mario Chiari (Italy), Leo J. M. Dekkers (The Netherlands), Peter Deplazes (Switzerland), J. Paul Duff (United Kingdom), Javier Millán Gasca (Spain), Walter Glawischnig (Austria), Irina Golovljova (Estonia), Roland Grunow (Germany), Jean Hars (France), Marja Isomursu (Finland), Jens Jacob (Germany), Kastriot Korro (Albania), Antonio Lavazza (Italy), Jane Learmount (United Kingdom), Annick Linden (Belgium), Andrzej Lipowski (Poland), Miriam Maas (The Netherlands), Ignasi Marco (Spain), Roman Meier (Switzerland), Marcos Miñarro Prado (Spain), Viacheslav Morozov (Russia), Sofia Núncio (Portugal), Riccardo Orusa (Italy), Thomas Romig (Germany), Sophie Rossi (France), Francisco Ruiz-Fons (Spain), Gianmaria Sommavilla (Italy), Michal Stanko (Slovakia), Adolf Steinrigl (Austria), Herbert Tomaso (Germany), Jurga Turcinaviciene (Lithuania), Umberto Zamboni (Italy) BACKGROUND: The need for wildlife health surveillance as part of disease control in wildlife, domestic animals and humans on the global level is widely recognized. However, the objectives, methods and intensity of existing wildlife health surveillance programs vary greatly among European countries, resulting in a patchwork of data that are difficult to merge and compare. This survey aimed at evaluating the need and potential for data harmonization in wildlife health in Europe. The specific objective was to collect information on methods currently used to estimate host abundance and pathogen prevalence. Questionnaires were designed to gather detailed information for three host-pathogen combinations: (1) wild boar and Aujeszky's disease virus, (2) red fox and Echinococcus multilocularis, and (3) common vole and Francisella tularensis. RESULTS: We received a total of 70 responses from 19 European countries. Regarding host abundance, hunting bags are currently the most widely accessible data source for widely distributed mid-sized and larger mammals such as red fox and wild boar, but we observed large differences in hunting strategies among countries as well as among different regions within countries. For small rodents, trapping is the method of choice, but practical applications vary among study sites. Laboratory procedures are already largely harmonized but information on the sampled animals is not systematically collected. CONCLUSIONS: The answers revealed that a large amount of information is available for the selected host-pathogen pairs and that in theory methods are already largely harmonized. However, the comparability of the data remains strongly compromised by local differences in the way, the methods are applied in practice. While these issues may easily be overcome for prevalence estimation, there is an urgent need to develop tools for the routine collection of host abundance data in a harmonized way. Wildlife health experts are encouraged to apply the harmonized APHAEA protocols in epidemiological studies in wildlife and to increase cooperation. Funding was provided by the EMIDA ERA-NET project APHAEA (grant no. 2811ERA117). info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe - a questionnaire survey on three selected host-pathogen combinations |
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Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe - a questionnaire survey on three selected host-pathogen combinations |
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Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe - a questionnaire survey on three selected host-pathogen combinations |
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ftinssaudelisboa:oai:repositorio.insa.pt:10400.18/4903 2023-05-15T15:56:41+02:00 Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe - a questionnaire survey on three selected host-pathogen combinations Sonnenburg, J. Ryser-Degiorgis, M.P. Kuiken, T. Ferroglio, E. Ulrich, R.G. Conraths, F. Gortázar, C. Staubach, C. APHAEA project partners 2018-02-01T15:49:40Z http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4903 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0935-x eng eng BioMed Central https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0935-x BMC Vet Res. 2017 Feb 16;13(1):53. doi:10.1186/s12917-016-0935-x 1746-6148 http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4903 doi:10.1186/s12917-016-0935-x openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Animal abundance Diagnostic methods Europe Harmonization Questionnaire Wildlife Infecções Sistémicas e Zoonoses article 2018 ftinssaudelisboa https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0935-x 2021-09-23T15:56:28Z APHAEA project partners who participated in the survey: Pelayo Acevedo (Spain), Andreas Agreiter (Italy), Anna Bajer (Poland), Alex Barlow (United Kingdom), Charalambos Billinis (Greece), Franck Boue (France), Andrea Cadamuro (Italy), Maria S. Calabrese (Italy), Gioia Capelli (Italy), Isabel Lopes de Carvalho (Portugal), Adriano Casulli (Italy), Ermanno Cetto (Italy), Mario Chiari (Italy), Leo J. M. Dekkers (The Netherlands), Peter Deplazes (Switzerland), J. Paul Duff (United Kingdom), Javier Millán Gasca (Spain), Walter Glawischnig (Austria), Irina Golovljova (Estonia), Roland Grunow (Germany), Jean Hars (France), Marja Isomursu (Finland), Jens Jacob (Germany), Kastriot Korro (Albania), Antonio Lavazza (Italy), Jane Learmount (United Kingdom), Annick Linden (Belgium), Andrzej Lipowski (Poland), Miriam Maas (The Netherlands), Ignasi Marco (Spain), Roman Meier (Switzerland), Marcos Miñarro Prado (Spain), Viacheslav Morozov (Russia), Sofia Núncio (Portugal), Riccardo Orusa (Italy), Thomas Romig (Germany), Sophie Rossi (France), Francisco Ruiz-Fons (Spain), Gianmaria Sommavilla (Italy), Michal Stanko (Slovakia), Adolf Steinrigl (Austria), Herbert Tomaso (Germany), Jurga Turcinaviciene (Lithuania), Umberto Zamboni (Italy) BACKGROUND: The need for wildlife health surveillance as part of disease control in wildlife, domestic animals and humans on the global level is widely recognized. However, the objectives, methods and intensity of existing wildlife health surveillance programs vary greatly among European countries, resulting in a patchwork of data that are difficult to merge and compare. This survey aimed at evaluating the need and potential for data harmonization in wildlife health in Europe. The specific objective was to collect information on methods currently used to estimate host abundance and pathogen prevalence. Questionnaires were designed to gather detailed information for three host-pathogen combinations: (1) wild boar and Aujeszky's disease virus, (2) red fox and Echinococcus multilocularis, and (3) common vole and Francisella tularensis. RESULTS: We received a total of 70 responses from 19 European countries. Regarding host abundance, hunting bags are currently the most widely accessible data source for widely distributed mid-sized and larger mammals such as red fox and wild boar, but we observed large differences in hunting strategies among countries as well as among different regions within countries. For small rodents, trapping is the method of choice, but practical applications vary among study sites. Laboratory procedures are already largely harmonized but information on the sampled animals is not systematically collected. CONCLUSIONS: The answers revealed that a large amount of information is available for the selected host-pathogen pairs and that in theory methods are already largely harmonized. However, the comparability of the data remains strongly compromised by local differences in the way, the methods are applied in practice. While these issues may easily be overcome for prevalence estimation, there is an urgent need to develop tools for the routine collection of host abundance data in a harmonized way. Wildlife health experts are encouraged to apply the harmonized APHAEA protocols in epidemiological studies in wildlife and to increase cooperation. Funding was provided by the EMIDA ERA-NET project APHAEA (grant no. 2811ERA117). info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Common vole National Health Institute, Portugal: Repositório Científico Andreas ENVELOPE(-60.729,-60.729,-64.008,-64.008) Barlow ENVELOPE(-137.654,-137.654,63.733,63.733) Duff ENVELOPE(-60.029,-60.029,-62.450,-62.450) Marcos ENVELOPE(-61.833,-61.833,-64.500,-64.500) Meier ENVELOPE(-45.900,-45.900,-60.633,-60.633) Pelayo ENVELOPE(-62.200,-62.200,-64.667,-64.667) Roland ENVELOPE(-64.050,-64.050,-65.067,-65.067) BMC Veterinary Research 13 1 |