20.500.12556/RUL-181482 Organisation of wildlife passive disease surveillance in Slovenia over 30 years (1995–2025) and insights into certain causes of disease or mortality Wildlife health surveillance is a vital element of disease prevention, biodiversity conservation, and public health protection, especially as most emerging infectious diseases originate from wildlife. In Slovenia, long-term passive surveillance based on necropsy data has yielded valuable insights into wildlife mortality patterns over the past three decades, despite inherent limitations such as carcass detectability, reporting bias, scavenging, and decomposition. Ongoing cooperation among governmental institutions, veterinary services, hunters, and wildlife management organisations has enabled the effective operation of this system, although passive surveillance remains subject to spatial, temporal, and species-specific biases. Necropsy data show that infectious diseases, particularly parasitic infections, are the main causes of mortality in key species such as roe deer and chamois, reflecting both their population abundance and targeted monitoring. In contrast, carcasses of species such as wild boar, red deer, small mammals, and birds are underrepresented due to ecological factors, biosecurity constraints, or low detectability. Overall, while passive wildlife surveillance does not provide representative population-level mortality estimates, it remains a reliable tool for identifying the presence or absence of significant diseases and for understanding broad mortality patterns when interpreted in the context of known methodological and ecological limitations. wild animals health monitoring necropsies archival record One Health zdravje divjih živali spremljanje arhivski zapisi nekropsij Eno zdravje true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-04-09 04:43:21 2026-04-09 11:36:14 2026-04-10 04:38:51 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 17 str. iss. 4, art. 360 Vol. 13 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno apc 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 636.09:616-036.22(497.4) 2306-7381 10.3390/vetsci13040360 274467331 Organisation-Vengust.pdf Organisation-Vengust.pdf 1 69CADB1F2A2CE19A1D1E56A5A8523DA5 3649078e58d2596d5a8d59b488f8baa85fae074b0574486004297fbdf4968852 a41d6256-33f6-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232029 https://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/13/4/360 1 b421f094-33bd-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=231993 Veterinarska fakulteta 0 0 0