The primary aim of this study was to investigate how supplemental feeding is associated with host PD and prevalence of pathogens with different transmission modes in urban stray cats. Among them, an increased population density (PD) of animals receiving supplemental food raises concerns regarding the transmission of pathogens in these host populations.
Supplemental feeding of free-roaming animals, including wildlife and feral or stray animals, is well known to have a substantial impact on various aspects of animal ecology including habitat use, activity patterns, and host-pathogen interactions. Disentangling the link between supplemental feeding, population density, and the prevalence of pathogens in urban stray cats. Cite this article Hwang J, Gottdenker NL, Oh D, Nam H, Lee H, Chun M. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. Licence This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. 3 Parasitic Disease Research Institute, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea DOI 10.7717/peerj.4988 Published Accepted Received Academic Editor Dorothee Bienzle Subject Areas Ecology, Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Population Biology Keywords Feline pathogen, Supplemental feeding, Host population density, Urban stray cat, Urban ecology, Cat caretaker activity Copyright © 2018 Hwang et al.
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