Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Cross-species transmission

Index Cross-species transmission

Cross-species transmission, (CST) or spillover, is the ability for a foreign virus, once introduced into an individual of a new host species, to infect that individual and spread throughout a new host population. [1]

70 relations: Adenoviridae, Agriculture, Animal migration, Assay, Avian influenza, Avulavirus, Bacteria, Bayesian inference, Biogeography, BLAST, Cell biology, Chicken, Chimpanzee, Coalescent theory, Columbidae, Computation, Crab-eating macaque, Death, Demography, Ebola virus disease, Ecology, Enzootic, Epidemiology, Evolution, Feline zoonosis, Galliformes, GenBank, Genetic distance, Genetic diversity, Genome, Gorilla, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Human, Hypothesis, Likelihood function, Livestock, Mathematical modelling of infectious disease, Molecular clock, Molecule, Monkeypox, Morbillivirus, Mutation, Occam's razor, Orthohantavirus, Outbreak, Pairwise comparison, Pathogen, Phylogenetic tree, Phylogenetics, ..., Poultry farming, Primate, Public health, Rabies, Retrovirus, RNA virus, Severe acute respiratory syndrome, Simian foamy virus, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Spillover infection, Statistical model, Stochastic, Strain (biology), Swine influenza, Titi monkey adenovirus, Variable number tandem repeat, Virus, Wildlife, Wildlife management, Zoonosis. Expand index (20 more) »

Adenoviridae

Adenoviruses (members of the family Adenoviridae) are medium-sized (90–100 nm), nonenveloped (without an outer lipid bilayer) viruses with an icosahedral nucleocapsid containing a double stranded DNA genome.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Adenoviridae · See more »

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Agriculture · See more »

Animal migration

Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Animal migration · See more »

Assay

An assay is an investigative (analytic) procedure in laboratory medicine, pharmacology, environmental biology and molecular biology for qualitatively assessing or quantitatively measuring the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity (the analyte).

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Assay · See more »

Avian influenza

Avian influenza—known informally as avian flu or bird flu is a variety of influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Avian influenza · See more »

Avulavirus

The genus Avulavirus is one of seven genera in the family Paramyxoviridae and contains viruses that used to be classified in the genus Rubulavirus.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Avulavirus · See more »

Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Bacteria · See more »

Bayesian inference

Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Bayesian inference · See more »

Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Biogeography · See more »

BLAST

In bioinformatics, BLAST for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool is an algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and BLAST · See more »

Cell biology

Cell biology (also called cytology, from the Greek κυτος, kytos, "vessel") is a branch of biology that studies the structure and function of the cell, the basic unit of life.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Cell biology · See more »

Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Chicken · See more »

Chimpanzee

The taxonomical genus Pan (often referred to as chimpanzees or chimps) consists of two extant species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Chimpanzee · See more »

Coalescent theory

Coalescent theory is a model of how gene variants sampled from a population may have originated from a common ancestor.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Coalescent theory · See more »

Columbidae

Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Columbidae · See more »

Computation

Computation is any type of calculation that includes both arithmetical and non-arithmetical steps and follows a well-defined model, for example an algorithm.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Computation · See more »

Crab-eating macaque

The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), also known as the long-tailed macaque, is a cercopithecine primate native to Southeast Asia.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Crab-eating macaque · See more »

Death

Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Death · See more »

Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Demography · See more »

Ebola virus disease

Ebola virus disease (EVD), also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) or simply Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Ebola virus disease · See more »

Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Ecology · See more »

Enzootic

Enzootic is the non-human equivalent of endemic and means, in a broad sense, "belonging to" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Enzootic · See more »

Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where) and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Epidemiology · See more »

Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Evolution · See more »

Feline zoonosis

Feline zoonosis are the viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoan, nematode and arthropod infections that can be transmitted to humans from the domesticated cat, Felis catus.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Feline zoonosis · See more »

Galliformes

Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkey, grouse, chicken, New World quail and Old World quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, junglefowl and the Cracidae.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Galliformes · See more »

GenBank

The GenBank sequence database is an open access, annotated collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and GenBank · See more »

Genetic distance

Genetic distance is a measure of the genetic divergence between species or between populations within a species, whether the distance measures time from common ancestor or degree of differentiation.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Genetic distance · See more »

Genetic diversity

Genetic diversity is the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Genetic diversity · See more »

Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is the genetic material of an organism.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Genome · See more »

Gorilla

Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Gorilla · See more »

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and over time acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

New!!: Cross-species transmission and HIV · See more »

HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

New!!: Cross-species transmission and HIV/AIDS · See more »

Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Human · See more »

Hypothesis

A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Hypothesis · See more »

Likelihood function

In frequentist inference, a likelihood function (often simply the likelihood) is a function of the parameters of a statistical model, given specific observed data.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Likelihood function · See more »

Livestock

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Livestock · See more »

Mathematical modelling of infectious disease

Mathematical models can project how infectious diseases progress to show the likely outcome of an epidemic and help inform public health interventions.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Mathematical modelling of infectious disease · See more »

Molecular clock

The molecular clock is a technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Molecular clock · See more »

Molecule

A molecule is an electrically neutral group of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Molecule · See more »

Monkeypox

Monkeypox is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Monkeypox · See more »

Morbillivirus

Morbillivirus is a genus of viruses in the order Mononegavirales, in the family Paramyxoviridae.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Morbillivirus · See more »

Mutation

In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Mutation · See more »

Occam's razor

Occam's razor (also Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae "law of parsimony") is the problem-solving principle that, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Occam's razor · See more »

Orthohantavirus

Orthohantaviruses (or hantaviruses) are single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA viruses in the Hantaviridae family of the order Bunyavirales, which normally infect rodents where they do not cause disease.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Orthohantavirus · See more »

Outbreak

In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Outbreak · See more »

Pairwise comparison

Pairwise comparison generally is any process of comparing entities in pairs to judge which of each entity is preferred, or has a greater amount of some quantitative property, or whether or not the two entities are identical.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Pairwise comparison · See more »

Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος pathos "suffering, passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") or a '''germ''' in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease; the term came into use in the 1880s.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Pathogen · See more »

Phylogenetic tree

A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities—their phylogeny—based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Phylogenetic tree · See more »

Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Phylogenetics · See more »

Poultry farming

Poultry farming is the process of raising domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese for the purpose of farming meat or eggs for food.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Poultry farming · See more »

Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Primate · See more »

Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Public health · See more »

Rabies

Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Rabies · See more »

Retrovirus

A retrovirus is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus with a DNA intermediate and, as an obligate parasite, targets a host cell.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Retrovirus · See more »

RNA virus

An RNA virus is a virus that has RNA (ribonucleic acid) as its genetic material.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and RNA virus · See more »

Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV).

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Severe acute respiratory syndrome · See more »

Simian foamy virus

The Simian Foamy Virus (SFV) is species of the genus Spumavirus, which belongs to the family of Retroviridae.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Simian foamy virus · See more »

Single-nucleotide polymorphism

A single-nucleotide polymorphism, often abbreviated to SNP (plural), is a variation in a single nucleotide that occurs at a specific position in the genome, where each variation is present to some appreciable degree within a population (e.g. > 1%).

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Single-nucleotide polymorphism · See more »

Spillover infection

Spillover infection, also known as pathogen spillover and spillover event, occurs when a reservoir population with a high pathogen prevalence comes into contact with a novel host population.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Spillover infection · See more »

Statistical model

A statistical model is a mathematical model that embodies a set of statistical assumptions concerning the generation of some sample data and similar data from a larger population.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Statistical model · See more »

Stochastic

The word stochastic is an adjective in English that describes something that was randomly determined.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Stochastic · See more »

Strain (biology)

In biology, a strain is a low-level taxonomic rank used at the intraspecific level (within a species).

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Strain (biology) · See more »

Swine influenza

Swine influenza is an infection caused by any one of several types of swine influenza viruses.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Swine influenza · See more »

Titi monkey adenovirus

Titi monkey adenovirus (TMAdV) is an adenovirus first identified in a New World titi monkey of the genus Callicebus, and the virus also infected to at least two humans.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Titi monkey adenovirus · See more »

Variable number tandem repeat

A variable number tandem repeat (or VNTR) is a location in a genome where a short nucleotide sequence is organized as a tandem repeat.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Variable number tandem repeat · See more »

Virus

A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Virus · See more »

Wildlife

Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Wildlife · See more »

Wildlife management

Wildlife management attempts to balance the needs of wildlife with the needs of people using the best available science.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Wildlife management · See more »

Zoonosis

Zoonoses are infectious diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans.

New!!: Cross-species transmission and Zoonosis · See more »

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-species_transmission

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »