TY  - JOUR
A1  - Regier, Yvonne
A1  - O'Rourke, Fiona
A1  - Kempf, Volkhard A. J.
T1  - Bartonella spp. - a chance to establish One Health concepts in veterinary and human medicine
T2  - Parasites & vectors
N2  - Infectious diseases remain a remarkable health threat for humans and animals. In the past, the epidemiology, etiology and pathology of infectious agents affecting humans and animals have mostly been investigated in separate studies. However, it is evident, that combined approaches are needed to understand geographical distribution, transmission and infection biology of “zoonotic agents”. The genus Bartonella represents a congenial example of the synergistic benefits that can arise from such combined approaches: Bartonella spp. infect a broad variety of animals, are linked with a constantly increasing number of human diseases and are transmitted via arthropod vectors. As a result, the genus Bartonella is predestined to play a pivotal role in establishing a One Health concept combining veterinary and human medicine.
KW  - Ticks
KW  - Fleas
KW  - Lice
KW  - Cats
KW  - Dogs
KW  - Humans
KW  - Infection
KW  - Transmission
KW  - Zoonosis
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44191
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-441911
SN  - 1756-3305
N1  - Copyright: © Regier et al. 2016. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 9
IS  - 1, Art. 261
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -