TY - JOUR
T1 - The One Health Approach to Toxoplasmosis
T2 - Epidemiology, Control, and Prevention Strategies
AU - Aguirre, A. Alonso
AU - Longcore, Travis
AU - Barbieri, Michelle
AU - Dabritz, Haydee
AU - Hill, Dolores
AU - Klein, Patrice N.
AU - Lepczyk, Christopher
AU - Lilly, Emily L.
AU - McLeod, Rima
AU - Milcarsky, Judith
AU - Murphy, Caroline E.
AU - Su, Chunlei
AU - VanWormer, Elizabeth
AU - Yolken, Robert
AU - Sizemore, Grant C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/6/15
Y1 - 2019/6/15
N2 - One Health is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort that seeks optimal health for people, animals, plants, and the environment. Toxoplasmosis, caused by Toxoplasma gondii, is an intracellular protozoan infection distributed worldwide, with a heteroxenous life cycle that practically affects all homeotherms and in which felines act as definitive reservoirs. Herein, we review the natural history of T. gondii, its transmission and impacts in humans, domestic animals, wildlife both terrestrial and aquatic, and ecosystems. The epidemiology, prevention, and control strategies are reviewed, with the objective of facilitating awareness of this disease and promoting transdisciplinary collaborations, integrative research, and capacity building among universities, government agencies, NGOs, policy makers, practicing physicians, veterinarians, and the general public.
AB - One Health is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort that seeks optimal health for people, animals, plants, and the environment. Toxoplasmosis, caused by Toxoplasma gondii, is an intracellular protozoan infection distributed worldwide, with a heteroxenous life cycle that practically affects all homeotherms and in which felines act as definitive reservoirs. Herein, we review the natural history of T. gondii, its transmission and impacts in humans, domestic animals, wildlife both terrestrial and aquatic, and ecosystems. The epidemiology, prevention, and control strategies are reviewed, with the objective of facilitating awareness of this disease and promoting transdisciplinary collaborations, integrative research, and capacity building among universities, government agencies, NGOs, policy makers, practicing physicians, veterinarians, and the general public.
KW - Integrative research
KW - One Health
KW - Toxoplasma gondii
KW - Toxoplasmosis
KW - Transdisciplinarity
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U2 - 10.1007/s10393-019-01405-7
DO - 10.1007/s10393-019-01405-7
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30945159
AN - SCOPUS:85060021304
SN - 1612-9202
VL - 16
SP - 378
EP - 390
JO - EcoHealth
JF - EcoHealth
IS - 2
ER -