Pathogens as drivers of population declines: The importance of systematic monitoring in great apes and other threatened mammals
Pathogens as drivers of population declines: The importance of systematic monitoring in great apes and other threatened mammals
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DOI：
10.1016/j.biocon.2006.05.002
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发表时间：
2006-08-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Boesch, Christophe
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作者：
Leendertz, Fabian H.;Pauli, Georg;Boesch, Christophe
直到最近，类人猿行为和生态研究的重点一直与医学和兽医科学科学家的重点不同。由于最近在类人猿中爆发了包括埃博拉病毒在内的疾病，并且有迹象表明埃博拉病毒和其他病毒在灵长类动物和人类之间交叉传播，越来越多的科学家呼吁将医学和实地研究联系起来。进展的一个主要限制是缺乏有关传染病及其在野生灵长类动物中传播的信息。在这里，我们展示了在野生类人猿中成功检测病原体的例子，并描述了可在该领域使用的方法和技术，特别侧重于死亡调查和非侵入性样本采集。这种跨学科方法为类人猿传染病提供了新的见解，并有助于保护类人猿种群的健康。该框架还可以应用于受到传染病威胁的其他哺乳动物，包括非洲野狗、海豹和袋獾。除了为类人猿保护带来好处之外，将传染病与灵长类动物生态学相结合的研究还为人类新出现的疾病以及疾病在灵长类动物进化中的作用提供了见解。 (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. 保留所有权利。
Until recently, the focus of great ape behavioural and ecological research has been distinct from the focus of scientists working in medical and veterinary sciences. More scientists are calling for a connection between medical and field research due to recent disease outbreaks in great apes, including Ebola, and indications of cross-transmission of Ebola and other viruses between primates and humans. A major limitation to progress is the lack of information on infectious diseases and their transmission in wild primates. Here, we present examples of successful pathogen detection in wild great apes and describe approaches and techniques that can be used in the field, focusing in particular on investigation of deaths and non-invasive sample collection. This interdisciplinary approach is providing new insights to infectious diseases of great apes and is helping to protect the health of great ape populations. This framework can also be applied to other mammals under threat from infectious diseases, including African wild dogs, seals and Tasmanian devils. In addition to providing benefits for great ape conservation, research that integrates infectious disease with primate ecology provides insights to emerging diseases in humans and the role of disease in primate evolution. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.