Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Enterobacteriaceae critically threaten duck farming and public health. The phenotypes, genotypes, and associated mobile genetic elements (MGEs) of MDR Enterobacteriaceae isolated from 6 duck farms in Zhejiang Province, China, were investigated. A total of 215 isolates were ...

Background: The life cycles of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases can be complex. This complexity makes it challenging to identify factors that confound the association between an exposure of interest and infection in one of the susceptible hosts. In epidemiology, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) can ...

The expansion of pig production is due to the intensification of the animal's breeding process. Outdoor farming systems have been replaced by intensive systems with limited space and high animal density. Due to confinement, a greater number of animals in a smaller space, in addition to greater...

Light pollution poses risks to human, animal. and environmental health. The chronodisruption linked to the lengthening of domestic lighting duration has an impact on obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans, but also in domestic cats, living in the same environment and subject to the same...

Although secondary cases have become infected with the SFTSV after being in the same space without direct contact with the index case, it has not been experimentally determined if the SFTSV can be transmitted through aerosols. Here, this study aimed to verify if the SFTSV could be transmitted by...

Our previous studies using gene-targeted mouse models of chronic wasting disease (CWD) demonstrated that Norway and North America cervids are infected with distinct prion strains that respond differently to naturally occurring amino acid variation at residue 226 of the prion protein. Here we...

In Japan, 2 cats that underwent surgery in a room where a sick dog had been euthanized became ill within 9 days of surgery. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus was detected in all 3 animals; nucleotide sequence identity was 100%. Suspected cause was an uncleaned pulse oximeter probe...

This special issue includes 30 articles that discuss behavior and chemical ecology, development and life history, myiasis and forensics, risk assessment and economic impact, morphology and systematics, vector control and pest management, host interactions and transmission, and vector-borne diseases.

Orbiviruses are of significant importance to the health of wildlife and domestic animals worldwide; the major orbiviruses transmitted by multiple biting midge (Culicoides) species include bluetongue virus, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus, and African horse sickness virus. The viruses, insect...

Chagas disease is a zoonotic vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which affects a variety of mammalian species across the Americas, including humans and dogs. Mathematical modeling has been widely used to investigate the transmission dynamics and control of vector-borne...