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creators_name: Baptista, C.J.
creators_name: Seixas, F.
creators_name: Gonzalo-Orden, J.M.
creators_name: Oliveira, P.A.
title: How to Design a Biomonitoring Study – A Practical Guide for Veterinary Professionals under a One Health Approach
ispublished: pub
subjects: SF
divisions: j13
full_text_status: public
keywords: cadmium; heavy metal; lead; mycotoxin; polybrominated diphenyl ether; polychlorinated biphenyl; xenobiotic agent, Article; biological monitoring; clinical practice; epidemic; human; indicator organism; indoor air pollution; long term exposure; nonhuman; One Health; poisonous plant; pollutant; pollution monitoring; practice guideline; professional knowledge; veterinarian; veterinary medicine
note: Egas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CiiEM), Egas Moniz School of Health & Science, Almada, Portugal; Centro de Investigação das Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas (CITAB/Inov4Agro), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal; Departamento de Ciências Veterinárias, Escola de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (ECAV), UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal; Animal and Veterinary Research Center (CECAV/Al4Animals), UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal; Instituto de Biomedicina (IBIOMED), Universidad de León, León, Spain
abstract: Currently, veterinarians can see their daily practice and medical tasks as constant opportunities for passive surveillance of One Health threats, such as infectious zoonotic diseases and chemical pollution effects on living beings. The present study aimed to provide a practical guide to designing a biomonitoring study during veterinary clinical practice without time-consuming procedures or significant costs. The constant access to several species’ specimens provides the necessary samples to perform a biomonitoring study of environmental pollutants at the regional or national level. Generally, most health professionals know what to do (or where to find information) to report a disease outbreak. However, a summarized background to perform a biomonitoring study of a chemical hazard is missing. The authors of the current study provided a flow chart with the main steps to conduct a biomonitoring study in different fields of veterinary medicine. Thus, a biomonitoring study might give veterinarians (as other health professionals) a positive contribution to the clinical cases’ resolution, while improving the general knowledge about the impact of environmental contamination on animals and human health. © The Author(s) 2024
date: 2024-09-25
publication: World's Veterinary Journal
volume: 14
number: 3
publisher: Scienceline Publication, Ltd
pagerange: 461-546
id_number: 10.54203/scil.2024.wvj53
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2322-4568
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85206321226&doi=10.54203%2fscil.2024.wvj53&partnerID=40&md5=4e5a12201003d9a9f9d34e076e78ea7d
j_index: scopus
citation:    (2024)     How to Design a Biomonitoring Study – A Practical Guide for Veterinary Professionals under a One Health Approach.   World's Veterinary Journal.  pp. 461-546.  ISSN 2322-4568   
document_url: http://eprints.science-line.com/id/eprint/1180/1/WVJ14%283%29%20461-466%2C%202024.pdf