Healthy animals, healthy people: zoonosis risk from animal contact in pet shops, a systematic review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

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.

Objectives

This study uses a systematic literature review to describe the transmission of zoonotic disease in humans associated with a pet shop or other location selling pets (incidents of rabies tracebacks and zoonoses from pet food were excluded).

Data sources

PubMed and EMBASE.

Results

Fifty seven separate case reports or incidents were described in the 82 papers that were identified by the systematic review. Summary information on each incident is included in this ma

SUBMITTER: Halsby KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3935869 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature