title: [Endemic zoonosis in Mediterranean area].
abstract: The Mediterranean is historically considered an area of high concentration of zoonoses. Mediterranean countries socio-economic features have favoured, over time, the onset of different types of zoonosis. Many of these may affect many occupational categories, first of all farmers, people working in abattoirs and processing products of animal origin. New farming activities and technologies have generated new occupational and zoonotic risks. These changes have influenced zoonosis epidemiology and have led to a gradual decrease in the number of diseases and to a reduction of some biological risks. However, brucellosis, Q fever, bovine tuberculosis cystic echinococcosis remain a strong example of zoonosis and a real risk, in the Mediterranean area especially. Therefore, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Veterinary Service, Public Health and Occupational medicine is necessary in order to plan territorial prevention.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente, della Sicurezza, del Territorio, degli Alimenti e della Salute, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy. cfenga@unime.it
authors.forename: Concettina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fenga
authors.forename: Michela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pugliese
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D006801:Humans; D019083:Mediterranean Region / Q000453:epidemiology; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology*