Table 3 Overview of country-specific EcoZD projects
From: Ecohealth research in Southeast Asia: past, present and the way forward
Research focus | Research methods | Findings | |
|---|---|---|---|
Cambodia | Risks of zoonotic diarrhoea in rural households | Household questionnaires and biological sampling. | Humans were rarely isolated from animals facilitating disease transmission. |
Indonesia | Generating evidence on dog movement and behaviour | Surveys for dog demography, fecundity, movement and gathering socio-cultural data. | Disproved that dogs were spreading rabies across the island and that culling dogs would control rabies. |
Lao PDR | Pig zoonosis | Questionnaires and biological sampling of serum for pigs and humans. | Zoonoses from pigs were common in rural areas Much of the disease burden was related to poor awareness. |
Thailand/Vietnam | Microbiological contamination in poultry and water | Quantifying the microbiological contamination; Focus groups. | Salmonella spp. was an important hazard for small-scale chicken slaughterhouses. |
Vietnam | Exposure to leptospirosis | Retrospective study; Questionnaire; and Biological sampling. | Exposure was common but infected pigs did not pose a significant risk to humans; rather both pigs and people had risk factors related to environmental sources of infection. |
China (Yunnan Province) | Whether brucellosis was a zoonotic emerging disease in the Yunnan Province | Questionnaire; and Biological sampling of blood and mile from animals/humans. | Brucellosis remains uncommon. |
There is low awareness of the diseases. |