Table 1.

Selected zoonoses reviewed *.

Disease	Causative Pathogen	Region	Main Reservoirs	Mode of Transmission to Humans
Chagas disease	Trypanosoma cruzi	Southern USA, Central and South America	Opossums, rodents, armadillos, dogs, cats, and other mammals including monkeys (7 orders of mammals)	Contact with the fecal material of Triatominae bug, ingestion of contaminated food; blood transfusion
Brucellosis	Brucella spp. (B. abortus, B. melitensis, B. suis, B. canis, B. pinnipedialis, and B. ceti	Worldwide	Cattle, bison, water buffalo, African buffalo, elk, deer, sheep, goats, camels, swine, and wild pigs (B. suis); dogs and wild canids (B. canis); marine mammals (B. pinnipedialis and B. ceti)	Ingestion of unpasteurized dairy products or undercooked meat, contact with mucous membranes, and broken skin
Tuberculosis (bovine)	Mycobacterium bovis	Previously worldwide, now mostly eradicated or rare (Africa and Southeast Asia)	Cattle, bison, African buffalo, cervids, brushtail possums, badgers, kudu can be reservoirs	Ingestion (unpasteurized dairy products, undercooked meat including bushmeat), inhalation, contamination of breaks in the skin

* Information sources: [23,25,27,28,29,30]; additional tables with information on many bacterial, viral, and parasitic zoonoses are in the supplementary material (Tables S1–S3, respectively).