Crossing the Interspecies Barrier: Opening the Door to Zoonotic Pathogens
- Gortazar, Christian
- Reperant, Leslie A.
- Kuiken, Thijs
- Fuente, José de la
- Boadella, Mariana
- Martínez López, Beatriz
- Ruiz Fons, Francisco
- Estrada Peña, Agustin
- Drosten, Christian
- Medley, Graham
- Ostfeld, Richard
- Peterson, Townsend
- VerCauteren, Kurt C.
- Menge, Christian
- Artois, Marc
- Schultsz, Constance
- Delahay, Richard
- Serra Cobo, Jordi
- Poulin, Robert
- Keck, Frederic
- Aguirre, Alonso A.
- Henttonen, Heikki
- Dobson, Andrew P.
- Kutz, Susan
- Lubroth, Juan
- Mysterud, Atle
Publication date
January 2020
DOI Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journal
PLoS Pathogens Language
EnglishAbstract
The number of pathogens known to infect humans is ever increasing. Whether such increase reflects improved surveillance and detection or actual emergence of novel pathogens is unclear. Nonetheless, infectious diseases are the second leading cause of human mortality and disability-adjusted life years lost worldwide [1], [2]. On average, three to four new pathogen species are detected in the human population every year [3]. Most of these emerging pathogens originate from nonhuman animal species
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