Bacterial zoonoses impacts to conservation of wildlife populations: A global synthesis

Emerging infectious diseases have significantly increased in recent years; approximately 60% of these emerging diseases are of zoonotic origin, and of those, around 70% were identified to start with wild animals. To better understand the impacts of zoonotic diseases on wildlife, there is a need to identify the distribution and impact of zoonotic pathogens in wildlife, particular those species with threatened populations. To investigate this question, we constructed a zoonotic disease database identifying wildlife hosts for each bacterial zoonotic disease and recorded clinical signs of disease for each host-pathogen relationship if found. Species of least concern were found to have a significantly higher prevalence and richness of zoonotic bacterial diseases (n= 0.0608, x2= 5.898, p=0.01516). The taxonomic level Order was found to be the best predictor for pathogen richness, and the Artiodactyla and Carnivora contain a significantly higher pathogen richness than other vertebrate Orders. ..., Literature Review
From July 2020 to December 2022, We performed a literature review to identify wildlife hosts and clinical signs of bacterial zoonotic disease infection using Web of Science as the primary search engine. Supplemental searches were also conducted using PubMed, Google Scholar, and books or articles from the University of Missouri libraries. We identified zoonotic bacteria species using an updated version of a previously published pathogen database. We included pathogens that have been reported to cause disease in humans once and those found to cause disease only in immunocompromised patients. We excluded pathogen infections as a result of deliberate laboratory exposure, and pathogens found only in domestic species. In addition, we included recently recognized pathogen species from the Center for Diseases Control (CDC), Merck Veterinary Manual, and published literature.
Two separate database searches were conducted, the first to identify the wildlife host ranges of each zo..., , # Bacterial Zoonosis Prevalence and Clinical Symptoms

This is a zoonotic disease database that identified all documented wildlife hosts for each zoonotic bacterium including recorded signs of disease species experienced associated with the pathogens for mammals, birds and reptiles and recorded source.

## Description of the data and file structure

Each CSV is labeled with the bacteria genus species and contains the class, host general name, genus and species name, the full pathogen species name, a list of the recorded clinical signs, and the citation for the source in which the information was found.

N/A values indicate no data was found.

## Sharing/Access information

Data was derived from the following sources:
Sources in cs files.

## Code/Software

Not Applicable