Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on Lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom.

Autor:	Millins C; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK caroline.millins@glasgow.ac.uk.; The Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.; School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK., Gilbert L; The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK., Medlock J; Medical Entomology Group, Emergency Response Department, Public Health England, Salisbury, SP4 0JG, UK.; Health Protection Research Unit in Environment and Health, Porton Down, Salisbury SP4 0JG, UK., Hansford K; Medical Entomology Group, Emergency Response Department, Public Health England, Salisbury, SP4 0JG, UK., Thompson DB; Scottish Natural Heritage, 231 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh, EH12 7AT, UK., Biek R; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.; The Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences [Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci] 2017 Jun 05; Vol. 372 (1722).
DOI:	10.1098/rstb.2016.0123
Abstrakt:	Landscape change and altered host abundance are major drivers of zoonotic pathogen emergence. Conservation and biodiversity management of landscapes and vertebrate communities can have secondary effects on vector-borne pathogen transmission that are important to assess. Here we review the potential implications of these activities on the risk of Lyme borreliosis in the United Kingdom. Conservation management activities include woodland expansion, management and restoration, deer management, urban greening and the release and culling of non-native species. Available evidence suggests that increasing woodland extent, implementing biodiversity policies that encourage ecotonal habitat and urban greening can increase the risk of Lyme borreliosis by increasing suitable habitat for hosts and the tick vectors. However, this can depend on whether deer population management is carried out as part of these conservation activities. Exclusion fencing or culling deer to low densities can decrease tick abundance and Lyme borreliosis risk. As management actions often constitute large-scale perturbation experiments, these hold great potential to understand underlying drivers of tick and pathogen dynamics. We recommend integrating monitoring of ticks and the risk of tick-borne pathogens with conservation management activities. This would help fill knowledge gaps and the production of best practice guidelines to reduce risks.This article is part of the themed issue 'Conservation, biodiversity and infectious disease: scientific evidence and policy implications'. (© 2017 The Authors.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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