Raquel Castillo-Contreras
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Navarro I, Castillo-Contreras R
Animals (Basel)
. 2025 Mar;
15(5).
PMID: 40076015
Avian scavengers, particularly vultures, play a crucial role in ecosystem health by efficiently consuming carcasses, thereby reducing pathogen abundance and limiting disease transmission to wildlife, livestock, and humans. In addition...
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Escobar-Gonzalez M, Lopez-Martin J, Mentaberre G, Valldeperes M, Estruch J, Tampach S, et al.
Sci Total Environ
. 2024 May;
940:173463.
PMID: 38802001
Wild ungulates are expanding in range and number worldwide leading to an urgent need to manage their populations to minimize conflicts and promote coexistence with humans. In the metropolitan area...
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Conejero C, Gonzalez-Crespo C, Fatjo J, Castillo-Contreras R, Serrano E, Lavin S, et al.
Sci Total Environ
. 2024 May;
936:173258.
PMID: 38761929
Urbanization is an ongoing global environmental change. Wildlife may respond using anthropized environments and resources, which is known as synurbization, creating human-wildlife interactions. Wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations have become...
4.
Fernandez-Munoz M, Castillo-Contreras R, Perez J, Granados J, Marquez F, Lopez-Montoya A
Parasit Vectors
. 2023 May;
16(1):172.
PMID: 37254132
Background: Sarcoptic mange is one of the main parasitic diseases affecting the Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica. Scabietic animals suffer a decline in body condition and reproductive fitness and in severe...
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Conejero C, Lopez-Olvera J, Gonzalez-Crespo C, Raez-Bravo A, Castillo-Contreras R, Tampach S, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2022 Sep;
12(1):15090.
PMID: 36064859
Applying contemporary trapping standards when managing wildlife should no longer be an option, but a duty. Increasing wild boar populations originate a growing number of conflicts and hunting is the...
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Hagemann J, Conejero C, Stillfried M, Mentaberre G, Castillo-Contreras R, Fickel J, et al.
Sci Total Environ
. 2022 Apr;
833:155126.
PMID: 35405223
Urban wildlife ecology is gaining relevance as metropolitan areas grow throughout the world, reducing natural habitats and creating new ecological niches. However, knowledge is still scarce about the colonisation processes...
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Castillo-Contreras R, Marin M, Lopez-Olvera J, Ayats T, Aguilar X, Lavin S, et al.
Sci Total Environ
. 2022 Jan;
822:153444.
PMID: 35092769
Campylobacter spp. and Salmonella spp. are the most reported zoonotic agents in Europe. They can be transmitted from wildlife to humans, and wild boars (Sus scrofa) can harbour them. In...
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Castillo-Contreras R, Magen L, Birtles R, Varela-Castro L, Hall J, Conejero C, et al.
Transbound Emerg Dis
. 2021 Jul;
69(4):e82-e95.
PMID: 34331835
Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) constitute an emerging public health concern favoured by multidimensional global changes. Amongst these, increase and spread of wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations are of special concern since...
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Darwich L, Seminati C, Lopez-Olvera J, Vidal A, Aguirre L, Cerda M, et al.
Animals (Basel)
. 2021 Jun;
11(6).
PMID: 34071332
Disease transmission among wild boars, domestic animals and humans is a public health concern, especially in areas with high wild boar densities. In this study, fecal samples of wild boars...
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Castillo-Contreras R, Mentaberre G, Aguilar X, Conejero C, Colom-Cadena A, Raez-Bravo A, et al.
Sci Total Environ
. 2021 May;
773:145593.
PMID: 33940737
Urbanisation is a global human-induced environmental change and one of the most important threats to biodiversity. To survive in human-modified environments, wildlife must adjust to the challenging selection pressures of...