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Description: |
xii, 169 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Capacity development is one of the pillars through which the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations supports member countries. This manual serves as a resource for better understanding the ecology of bats, their natural history, their role in providing ecosystem services, techniques used for monitoring populations, and for the detection, identification and monitoring of viruses naturally circulating in bats and that can have significant implication if they are transmitted to people either through direct contact, or indirectly, through livestock. This manual will engage professionals from multiple disciplines ranging from public health and veterinary medicine to natural resource managers and biologists, but most importantly, highlights the need to understand the anthropogenic drivers resulting in disease transmission from bats to people. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Emerging infectious diseases -- Wildlife and emerging infectious diseases -- Drivers of emergence -- Impact of EIDs -- Bats and EIDs -- Management strategies -- Natural history, ecological and socio-economic value of bats -- Taxonomy and distribution -- Natural history -- Ecosystem roles -- Socio-economic roles -- Bat population abundance assessment and monitoring -- Population abundance assessment -- Survey and monitoring design considerations -- Application of bat population surveys and monitoring to the study of bat-borne diseases -- Conclusion -- Disease surveillance in free-ranging bat populations: challenges and logistical considerations -- Introduction -- Sampling biases -- Capture techniques: safety and efficacy -- Sampling protocols -- Transport -- Diagnostic assays/interpretation -- Significant zoonotic diseases identified in bats -- Introduction -- Henipaviruses -- Lyssaviruses -- Bat coronaviruses -- Filoviruses -- Virus discovery -- Introduction -- History of virus discovery in bats -- Molecular approaches to virus discovery in bats -- Improvement of virus isolation from bats -- Concluding remarks -- The use of telemetry to understand bat movement and ecology -- Tracking technology -- Discussion -- The global context of ensuring the health of people, wildlife, livestock and the environment -- Safe handling of bats -- Risks of handling bats -- Working safely -- First aid and medical assessment. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Investigating the role of bats in emerging zoonoses. Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011 (OCoLC)1086306198 |