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  • Ecology
  • Public Health

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  • Human-animal-environment interfaces are critical for infectious disease emergence.
  • Current research often overlooks microbial interactions, focusing on single pathogens.
  • The One Health approach is essential for understanding complex disease transmission.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for studying host-associated microbiota to understand connectivity at human-animal interfaces.
  • To highlight the potential of microbiota monitoring as a predictive tool for disease transmission.
  • To propose microbiota analysis as an early-warning system for public health.

Main Methods:

  • Review of current research on pathogen transmission and microbial interactions.
  • Emphasis on analyzing microbiota composition dynamics following interspecies contact.
  • Discussion of methodological challenges and knowledge gaps in microbiota science.

Main Results:

  • Host-associated microbiota can reveal connectivity between host populations.
  • Microbiota monitoring offers potential for predicting disease transmission.
  • Early detection of microbial shifts can inform public health interventions.

Conclusions:

  • Understanding microbiota changes is crucial for managing health risks at interfaces.
  • Integrating microbiota science with social-ecological systems modeling is key.
  • Microbiota analysis can enhance our ability to manage health and harness interspecies interactions.