Design and Implementation of a One Health Framework for Evaluating the Transmission Potential of Pathogens of Public Health Interest for Surveillance Studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globalization, over the past century, has extended the geographic range of infectious pathogens. Where physical distance previously protected populations from pathogens circulating in distant places, factors such as population growth, urbanization, modern transportation networks, and climate change have increased local expansion and amplification and cross-boundary spread of pathogens into naïve locations. Despite this possibility, a lack of historical endemicity of a pathogen in a region can delay its detection due to unfamiliarity with the symptomatology or limited diagnostics.

Methods

We developed the One Health transmission potential framework for assessing a pathogen, using a history-agnostic approach, that incorporates-but does not rely solely on-prior detec

SUBMITTER: Quiner CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12631772 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature