Wildlife-Domestic Animal Interface: Threat or Sentinel?

The domestic animal-wildlife interaction is becoming an increasingly important worldwide concern. Throughout history, wildlife has been a key source of infection transmissible to domestic animals, and when this transmission includes zoonoses, it becomes a serious public health issue that affects all continents. The expansion of urbanization in natural areas improves interactions between wildlife and domestic animals or humans. Transmission of infection from wild animals to domestic animals and humans has become more common in recent years as a result of a number of factors, including an increase in the number of wild animals, habitat fragmentation, and wildlife invasion of the natural environment, all of which have resulted in a closer and closer coexistence between pets and wild animals.

Wildlife monitoring and surveillance, especially from a health-related perspective, is a vital priority for the control of major pathogens and a critical component of conservation and management efforts. In general, animals can act as reservoirs and sentinel hosts for a variety of infectious diseases. Furthermore, wildlife might be exposed to domestic animal infections, which can have serious effects on their populations. Despite the fact that research on wildlife infections is expanding, the epidemiological significance of wild animals in the spread of infectious diseases remains largely unknown. The purpose of this issue is to present fresh facts and trends on disease transmission between wildlife and domestic animals, as well as vice versa.

This Research Topic will focus on, but not be limited to, the following topics:
-Cross-species transmission of pathogens between wild and domestic animals
-Wildlife as sentinel for domestic animal health
-Pathogenesis of emerging diseases in wildlife
-Control strategies to prevent infections in wildlife and their spread in domestic animals
-Viruses: Rabies, Coronaviruses, Pseudorabies, Hepatitis E, Avian influenza, Tick-borne encephalitis virus, Canine distemper, Canine parvovirus, Coronaviruses. Bluetongue, Schmallenberg;
-Bacteria: Tuberculosis, Paratubercolosis, Brucellosis, Leptospirosis, Q fever, Francisella tularensis etc;