Rodent Borne Zoonosis and Its Epidemic Surveillance - An Overview (Review Article)

Author(s): Manohar B. Vadela, Satyanagalakshmi Karri and Vijay A.K.B. Gundi

Abstract: Human health has been continually challenged from many years with a variety of pestilences and infections. Majority of the diseases are of zoonotic origin with different animal host range including reptiles, mammals, pet animals, livestock and wild animals. Among these, the species of the rodents are highly prevailed and distributed globally and hosts for variety of zoonotic pathogens. Until now, investigations of disease outbreaks have mostly been recorded with limited or non-availability of prior information. Due to the non-specific symptoms caused by these rodent-borne zoonotic pathogens and lack of clinical suspicion, transmission to human population probably left under-diagnosed or non-diagnosed and leads to spill over of disease. Identification of suspecting zoonotic pathogen along with reservoir host and transmission of emerging infectious diseases in different geographical regions are the important steps toward a preemptive approach to minimizing zoonotic disease risk in humans. In this review, we summarized the significance of rodent species as zoonotic carriers, associated diseases and their epidemic surveillance.

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