Monitoring of the stray dog population dynamics at University of São Paulo Campus, Brazil

• Grant number: 11/21969-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2012
• End date: January 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Preventive Veterinary Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Augusto Dias
• Grantee: Ricardo Augusto Dias
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The University of São Paulo Campus is located in the urban area of the city of Sao Paulo, with almost 4,2 million square meters, where almost 100 thousand people circulate, daily. Despite being walled, the Campus has access gates to pedestrians and vehicles. The university community has contact with stray dogs, therefore, exposed to the risk of zoonosis transmission, bite aggression and traffic accidents. The size of this population is unknown, such as its dynamics and this risk, although existing, cannot be measured nor managed, in order to make the coexistence with the university community more harmonious. A pseudo-capture method with photographic registry will be used to analyze the abundance of these animals, along with the animal transit estimate through the access gates and the abandonment and run over events inside the Campus. The population dynamics will be analyzed in association with the transmissible disease dynamics, in order to elucidate the population regulation mechanisms and the risks of zoonosis transmission to the university community. These activities are part of the Animal Monitoring Program at University of Sao Paulo Campus (ProMAC). (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DIAS, RICARDO AUGUSTO; ALVES GUILLOUX, ALINE GIL; BORBA, MAURO RIEGERT; DE LOURDES GUARNIERI, MARIA CRISTINA; PRIST, RICARDO; FERREIRA, FERNANDO; AMAKU, MARCOS; FERREIRA NETO, JOSE SOARES; STEVENSON, MARK. Size and spatial distribution of stray dog population in the University of Sao Paulo campus, Brazil. PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE, v. 110, n. 2, p. 263-273, JUN 1 2013. (11/21969-4)