Journal article
Parasite zoonoses and climate change: molecular tools for tracking shifting boundaries
Trends in Parasitology, Vol.25(6), pp.285-291
2009
Abstract
For human, domestic animal and wildlife health, key effects of directional climate change include the risk of the altered occurrence of infectious diseases. Many parasite zoonoses have high potential for vulnerability to the new climate, in part because their free-living life-cycle stages and ectothermic hosts are directly exposed to climatic conditions. For these zoonoses, climate change can shift boundaries for ecosystem components and processes integral to parasite transmission and persistence, and these shifts can impact host health. Vulnerable boundaries include those for spatial distributions, host-parasite assemblages, demographic rates, life-cycle phenologies, associations within ecosystems, virulence, and patterns of infection and disease. This review describes these boundary shifts and how molecular techniques can be applied to defining the new boundaries.
Details
- Title
- Parasite zoonoses and climate change: molecular tools for tracking shifting boundaries
- Authors/Creators
- L. Polley (Author/Creator) - Western University College of Veterinary MedicineR.C.A. Thompson (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Trends in Parasitology, Vol.25(6), pp.285-291
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 991005543112407891
- Copyright
- © 2009 Elsevier Ltd.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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