title: The role of wild canids and felids in spreading parasites to dogs and cats in Europe. Part II: Helminths and arthropods.
abstract: Over the last few decades, ecological factors, combined with everchanging landscapes mainly linked to human activities (e.g. encroachment and tourism) have contributed to modifications in the transmission of parasitic diseases from domestic to wildlife carnivores and vice versa. In the first of this two-part review article, we have provided an account of diseases caused by protozoan parasites characterised by a two-way transmission route between domestic and wild carnivore species. In this second and final part, we focus our attention on parasitic diseases caused by helminth and arthropod parasites shared between domestic and wild canids and felids in Europe. While a complete understanding of the biology, ecology and epidemiology of these parasites is particularly challenging to achieve, especially given the complexity of the environments in which these diseases perpetuate, advancements in current knowledge of transmission routes is crucial to provide policy-makers with clear indications on strategies to reduce the impact of these diseases on changing ecosystems.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, 70010 Valenzano, Italy. Electronic address: domenico.otranto@uniba.it.
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Otranto
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, CB3 0ES Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Cinzia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cantacessi
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, 70010 Valenzano, Italy; Departamento de Imunologia, Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, Fiocruz-PE, Recife, Brazil.
authors.forename: Filipe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dantas-Torres
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Universita' degli Studi di Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy.
authors.forename: Emanuele
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brianti
authors.affiliation: Institute of Animal Hygiene & Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pfeffer
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie e Sanita' Pubblica, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Genchi
authors.affiliation: Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, 40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy.
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Guberti
authors.affiliation: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, 35020 Legnaro, Italy.
authors.forename: Gioia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Capelli
authors.affiliation: Institute of Parasitology, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Deplazes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000469:parasitology*; D001181:Arthropods / Q000502:physiology*; D046028:Canidae / Q000469:parasitology; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D002415:Cats; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D004285:Dogs; D005060:Europe; D045989:Felidae / Q000469:parasitology; D006374:Helminthiasis, Animal / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D010273:Parasitic Diseases, Animal / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*
keywords: Aelurostrongylus abstrusus; Angiostrongylus vasorum; Arthropods; Dirofilaria; Echinococcus multilocularis; Europe; Helminths; Onchocerca lupi; Thelazia callipaeda; Toxocara canis; Troglostrongylus brevior; Wild canids; Wild felids; Wildlife; Zoonoses