Risk of disease spillover from dogs to wild carnivores in Kanha Tiger Reserve, India

V. Chaudhary; N. Rajput; A. B. Shrivastav; D. W. Tonkyn

Fragmentation of carnivore habitats due to anthropogenic activities leads to intense 313 interactions between humans, domestic carnivores and wild carnivores (Thorne & Williams, 314 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It . https://doi.org/10.1101/360271 doi: bioRxiv preprint 1988, Holmes, 1996) . These interactions can lead to disease spillover and the risks of infection 315 which can be amplified by environmental stressors like drought, existing infection, prey 316 depletion (Evermann, Roelke & Briggs, 1986 ) and climate change (Munson et al., 2008) . Canine 317 diseases like rabies are public health concern as well ( Sudarshan et al., 2007 , Sakai et al., 2013 . . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It . https://doi.org/10.1101/360271 doi: bioRxiv preprint 645 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It . https://doi.org/10.1101/360271 doi: bioRxiv preprint The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It . https://doi.org/10.1101/360271 doi: bioRxiv preprint . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It . https://doi.org/10.1101/360271 doi: bioRxiv preprint