TY - JOUR
T1 - Vector-borne diseases - Constant challenge for practicing veterinarians
T2 - Recommendations from the CVBD World Forum
AU - Baneth, Gad
AU - Bourdeau, Patrick
AU - Bourdoiseau, Gilles
AU - Bowman, Dwight
AU - Breitschwerdt, Edward
AU - Capelli, Gioia
AU - Cardoso, Luís
AU - Dantas-Torres, Filipe
AU - Day, Michael
AU - Dedet, Jean Pierre
AU - Dobler, Gerhard
AU - Ferrer, Lluís
AU - Irwin, Peter
AU - Kempf, Volkhard
AU - Kohn, Babara
AU - Lappin, Michael
AU - Little, Susan
AU - Maggi, Ricardo
AU - Mirá, Guadalupe
AU - Naucke, Torsten
AU - Oliva, Gaetano
AU - Otranto, Domenico
AU - Penzhorn, Banie
AU - Pfeffer, Martin
AU - Roura, Xavier
AU - Sainz, Angel
AU - Shaw, Susan
AU - Shin, Sungshik
AU - Solano-Gallego, Laia
AU - Straubinger, Reinhard
AU - Traub, Rebecca
AU - Trees, Alexander
AU - Truyen, Uwe
AU - Demonceau, Thierry
AU - Fitzgerald, Ronan
AU - Gatti, Diego
AU - Hostetler, Joe
AU - Kilmer, Bruce
AU - Krieger, Klemens
AU - Mencke, Norbert
AU - Mendão, Cláudio
AU - Mottier, Lourdes
AU - Pachnicke, Stefan
AU - Rees, Bob
AU - Siebert, Susanne
AU - Stanneck, Dorothee
AU - Tarancán Mingote, Montserrat
AU - Von Simson, Cristiano
AU - Weston, Sarah
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The authors are members of the CVBD World Forum. The CVBD World Forum was founded during the 1st International CVBD Symposium in April 2006 in Billesley, UK, as a consequence of the increasing global threats through vector-borne diseases. The CVBD World Forum is supported by Bayer Animal Health.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The human-animal bond has been a fundamental feature of mankind's history for millennia. The first, and strongest of these, man's relationship with the dog, is believed to pre-date even agriculture, going back as far as 30,000 years. It remains at least as powerful today. Fed by the changing nature of the interactions between people and their dogs worldwide and the increasing tendency towards close domesticity, the health of dogs has never played a more important role in family life. Thanks to developments in scientific understanding and diagnostic techniques, as well as changing priorities of pet owners, veterinarians are now able, and indeed expected, to play a fundamental role in the prevention and treatment of canine disease, including canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs). The CVBDs represent a varied and complex group of diseases, including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, borreliosis, dirofilariosis, ehrlichiosis, leishmaniosis, rickettsiosis and thelaziosis, with new syndromes being uncovered every year. Many of these diseases can cause serious, even life-threatening clinical conditions in dogs, with a number having zoonotic potential, affecting the human population. Today, CVBDs pose a growing global threat as they continue their spread far from their traditional geographical and temporal restraints as a result of changes in both climatic conditions and pet dog travel patterns, exposing new populations to previously unknown infectious agents and posing unprecedented challenges to veterinarians. In response to this growing threat, the CVBD World Forum, a multidisciplinary group of experts in CVBDs from around the world which meets on an annual basis, gathered in Nice (France) in 2011 to share the latest research on CVBDs and discuss the best approaches to managing these diseases around the world. As a result of these discussions, we, the members of the CVBD Forum have developed the following recommendations to veterinarians for the management of CVBDs.
AB - The human-animal bond has been a fundamental feature of mankind's history for millennia. The first, and strongest of these, man's relationship with the dog, is believed to pre-date even agriculture, going back as far as 30,000 years. It remains at least as powerful today. Fed by the changing nature of the interactions between people and their dogs worldwide and the increasing tendency towards close domesticity, the health of dogs has never played a more important role in family life. Thanks to developments in scientific understanding and diagnostic techniques, as well as changing priorities of pet owners, veterinarians are now able, and indeed expected, to play a fundamental role in the prevention and treatment of canine disease, including canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs). The CVBDs represent a varied and complex group of diseases, including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, borreliosis, dirofilariosis, ehrlichiosis, leishmaniosis, rickettsiosis and thelaziosis, with new syndromes being uncovered every year. Many of these diseases can cause serious, even life-threatening clinical conditions in dogs, with a number having zoonotic potential, affecting the human population. Today, CVBDs pose a growing global threat as they continue their spread far from their traditional geographical and temporal restraints as a result of changes in both climatic conditions and pet dog travel patterns, exposing new populations to previously unknown infectious agents and posing unprecedented challenges to veterinarians. In response to this growing threat, the CVBD World Forum, a multidisciplinary group of experts in CVBDs from around the world which meets on an annual basis, gathered in Nice (France) in 2011 to share the latest research on CVBDs and discuss the best approaches to managing these diseases around the world. As a result of these discussions, we, the members of the CVBD Forum have developed the following recommendations to veterinarians for the management of CVBDs.
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U2 - 10.1186/1756-3305-5-55
DO - 10.1186/1756-3305-5-55
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C2 - 22433172
AN - SCOPUS:84858435265
SN - 1756-3305
VL - 5
JO - Parasites and Vectors
JF - Parasites and Vectors
IS - 1
M1 - 55
ER -