Rabies in a postpandemic world: resilient reservoirs, redoubtable riposte, recurrent roadblocks, and resolute recidivism

CE Rupprecht, PP Mshelbwala, RG Reeves, IV Kuzmin - Animal diseases, 2023 - Springer
Rabies is an ancient disease. Two centuries since Pasteur, fundamental progress occurred
in virology, vaccinology, and diagnostics—and an understanding of pathobiology and …

Recombinant transmissible vaccines will be intrinsically contained despite the ability to superinfect

JJ Bull, SL Nuismer, CH Remien… - Expert Review of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Transmissible vaccines offer a novel approach to suppressing viruses in wildlife
populations, with possible applications against viruses that infect humans as zoonoses …

Wildlife vaccination strategies for eliminating bovine tuberculosis in white-tailed deer populations

A Pandey, AB Feuka, M Cosgrove… - PLoS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Many pathogens of humans and livestock also infect wildlife that can act as a reservoir and
challenge disease control or elimination. Efficient and effective prioritization of research and …

Epidemiology and control of rabies in cattle and equines in Rondônia State, a Brazilian's legal Amazon area

DNA Sodré, GAM Rossi, LA Mathias… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease and a significant cause of economic
losses in cattle and equine farms located in South America. In this continent, it is primarily …

Advances in understanding bat infection dynamics across biological scales

CA Sánchez, KL Phelps, HK Frank… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past two decades, research on bat-associated microbes such as viruses, bacteria
and fungi has dramatically increased. Here, we synthesize themes from a conference …

Developing transmissible vaccines for animal infections

DG Streicker, ME Griffiths, R Antia, L Bergner… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Many emerging and reemerging pathogens originate from wildlife, but nearly all wild
species are unreachable using conventional vaccination, which requires capture of and …

A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co-roosting host communities

MC Simonis, DJ Becker - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Cross-species transmission of pathogens can be facilitated by frequent contact among
wildlife. Cross-species transmission is often driven by phylogenetic similarity between host …

Fine-tuning the evolutionary stability of recombinant herpesviral transmissible vaccines

B Chan, SL Nuismer, H Alqirbi, J Nichols… - …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Spillover of infectious diseases from wild animal populations constitutes a long-standing
threat to human health for which few globally viable solutions have been developed. The …

[HTML][HTML] Using serosurveys to optimize surveillance for zoonotic pathogens

E Clancey, SL Nuismer, SN Seifert - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Zoonotic pathogens pose a significant risk to human health, with spillover into human
populations contributing to chronic disease, sporadic epidemics, and occasional pandemics …

Optimizing the delivery of self-disseminating vaccines in fluctuating wildlife populations

CL Schreiner, AJ Basinski, CH Remien… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Zoonotic pathogens spread by wildlife continue to spill into human populations and threaten
human lives. A potential way to reduce this threat is by vaccinating wildlife species that …