A Review of Non-Invasive Sampling in Wildlife Disease and Health Research: What's New?

ABSTRACT: In the last decades, wildlife diseases and the health status of animal populations have gained increasing attention from the scientific community as part of a One Health framework. Furthermore, the need for non-invasive sampling methods with a minimal impact on wildlife has become paramount in complying with modern ethical standards and regulations, and to collect high-quality and unbiased data. We analysed the publication trends on non-invasive sampling in wildlife health and disease research and offer a comprehensive review on the different samples that can be collected non-invasively. We retrieved 272 articles spanning from 1998 to 2021, with a rapid increase in number from 2010. Thirty-nine percent of the papers were focussed on diseases, 58% on other health-related topics, and 3% on b

SUBMITTER: Schilling AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9265025 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature