Buczek Alicja, Buczek Weronika
Chair and Department of Biology and Parasitology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin, 20-080 Lublin, Poland.
Animals (Basel). 2020 Dec 22;11(1):6. doi: 10.3390/ani11010006.
Increased human mobility elevates the risk of exposure of companion animals travelling with their owners or imported from other regions to tick attacks. In this study, we highlight the potential role of dogs and cats taken for tourist trips or imported animals in the spread of ticks and tick-borne pathogens. The tick, which is a vector of numerous pathogens causing diseases in animals and humans, is imported most frequently from endemic areas to many European countries. Additionally, alien tick species with high epizootic and epidemiological importance can be imported on dogs from other continents. Companion animals play an even greater role in the spread of autochthonous tick species and transmission of tick pathogens to other animals and humans. Although the veterinary and medical effects of the parasitism of ticks carried by companion animals travelling with owners or imported animals are poorly assessed, these animals seem to play a role in the rapid spread of tick-borne diseases. Development of strategies for protection of the health of companion animals in different geographic regions should take into account the potential emergence of unknown animal tick-borne diseases that can be transmitted by imported ticks.
人类活动的增加,提高了宠物随主人出行或从其他地区进口时遭受蜱虫叮咬的风险。在本研究中,我们强调了用于旅游的宠物猫狗或进口动物在蜱虫及蜱传病原体传播中的潜在作用。蜱虫是多种可导致动物和人类疾病的病原体的传播媒介,它最常从疫区被引入许多欧洲国家。此外,具有高动物流行病和流行病学重要性的外来蜱虫物种可随狗从其他大陆引入。伴侣动物在本地蜱虫物种的传播以及蜱传病原体向其他动物和人类的传播中发挥着更大的作用。尽管对于随主人出行的宠物或进口动物所携带蜱虫寄生的兽医和医学影响评估不足,但这些动物似乎在蜱传疾病的快速传播中起到了作用。在制定不同地理区域伴侣动物健康保护策略时,应考虑到由进口蜱虫传播的未知动物蜱传疾病可能出现的情况。