Healthy Animals, Healthy People: Zoonosis Risk from Animal Contact in Pet Shops, a Systematic Review of the Literature

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 2; p. e89309
• Main Authors: Halsby, Kate D., Walsh, Amanda L., Campbell, Colin, Hewitt, Kirsty, Morgan, Dilys
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 26.02.2014; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Bacteria; Biology; Birds; Case reports; Commerce; Disease; Disease transmission; Diseases; Epidemics; Food sources; Fungal diseases; Health aspects; Health care; Households; Humans; Infections; Information systems; Literature reviews; Medical research; Medicine; Multidrug resistant organisms; Outbreaks; Parrot fever; Pediatrics; Pet food; Pet stores; Pets; Psittacosis; Public health; Rabies; Risk Assessment; Rodents; Salmonella; Salmonella Typhimurium; Salmonellosis; Systematic review; Tropical diseases; Tularemia; Zoonoses; Zoonoses - transmission; United Kingdom > UK

Around 67 million pets are owned by households in the United Kingdom, and an increasing number of these are exotic animals. Approximately a third of pets are purchased through retail outlets or direct from breeders. A wide range of infections can be associated with companion animals. This study uses...