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One Health Farming: Noninvasive monitoring reveals links between farm vertebrate richness and pathogen markers in outdoor hoofstock

Investigación publicada en One Health

30 de octubre de 2024

Outdoor farming contributes to biodiversity conservation and enhances animal welfare, but also raises biosafety concerns due to livestock contact with potentially infected wildlife. Thus, there is a need to assess the balance between vertebrate species richness on farms, visits by wildlife species posing a biosafety risk, and pathogen circulation in open-air farming systems. We explored these links in a pilot study involving 15 open-air hoofstock farms (6 cattle, 5 small ruminant, and 4 pig farms), where we conducted interviews and risk point inspections and used two noninvasive tools: short-term camera trap (CT) deployment and environmental nucleic acid detection (ENAD). CTs were deployed to assess the richness of birds and mammals, as well as to determine the percentage of CTs detecting defined risk species. We also collected livestock feces and used sponges to sample surfaces for environmental DNA (eDNA), testing for nine pathogen markers. Total vertebrate richness ranged from 18 to 42 species, with waterholes significantly contributing to farm vertebrate richness, since 48.2 % of all wild vertebrates were detected at waterbodies, and 28.6 % were exclusively detected at waterholes. Pathogen markers detected at risk points correlated with those detected in livestock samples. Notably, the frequency of uidA marker detection correlated with the total number of pathogen markers detected per farm. Overall marker richness, an indicator of pathogen diversity, varied between farms, being higher in small ruminant farms compared to cattle or pig farms. At the farm level, wild vertebrate richness was negatively correlated with the richness of pathogen markers detected at risk points. Additionally, risk points with a higher probability of detecting more pathogen markers had lower vertebrate richness. Although CT-based assessments of vertebrate richness and ENAD-based pathogen marker detection are only indicators of actual biodiversity and farm health, respectively, our findings suggest that farmland vertebrate communities provide important ecosystem services and may help limit the circulation of multi-host pathogens




Herrero-Garcia G., Perez-Sancho M., Barroso P., Herranz-Benito C., Relimpio D., Garcia-Seco T., Perello A., Diez-Guerrier A., Pozo P., Balseiro A., Dominguez L. y Gortazar C.




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Participantes:

Universidad de LeónDepartamento de Sanidad Animal. Facultad de Veterinaria. Universidad de León.

Universidad ComplutenseServicio de Micobacterias (MYC). Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). Universidad Complutense (UCM).

Universidad ComplutenseDepartamento de Sanidad Animal. Facultad de Veterinaria. Universidad Complutense (UCM).

Gobierno de Castilla-La ManchaSanidad y Biotecnología (SaBio). Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM). Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha (JCCM).

Department of Animal Health. Mountain Livestock Institute.







One Health
FACTOR YEAR Q
4.100 2023

PMID: 39554755

ISSN: 2352-7714



TÍTULO: One Health Farming: Noninvasive monitoring reveals links between farm vertebrate richness and pathogen markers in outdoor hoofstock


REVISTA: One Health


NUMERACIÓN: 19:100924


AÑO: 2024


EDITORIAL: Elsevier


AUTORES: Herrero-Garcia G., Perez-Sancho M., Barroso P., Herranz-Benito C., Relimpio D., Garcia-Seco T., Perello A., Diez-Guerrier A., Pozo P., Balseiro A., Dominguez L. and Gortazar C.


2nd
Marta Pérez Sancho
4th
Carmen Herranz Benito
6th
María Teresa García-Seco Romero
8th
Alberto Antoine Díez Guerrier
9th
Pilar Pozo Piñol
11th
Lucas Domínguez Rodríguez
Last
Christian Gortazar Schmidt

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100924


CITA ESTA PUBLICACIÓN:

Herrero-Garcia G., Perez-Sancho M., Barroso P., Herranz-Benito C., Relimpio D., Garcia-Seco T., Perello A., Diez-Guerrier A., Pozo P., Balseiro A., Dominguez L. y Gortazar C. One Health Farming: Noninvasive monitoring reveals links between farm vertebrate richness and pathogen markers in outdoor hoofstock. One Health. 19:100924. 2024. (A). ISSN: 2352-7714. DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100924


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