2024
Disentangling the influence of reservoir abundance and pathogen shedding on zoonotic spillover of the Leptospira agent in urban informal settlements
Soni N, Eyre M, Souza F, Diggle P, Ko A, Begon M, Pickup R, Childs J, Khalil H, Carvalho-Pereira T, Pertile A, Carvalho M, de Oliveira D, Nery N, Giorgi E, Costa F. Disentangling the influence of reservoir abundance and pathogen shedding on zoonotic spillover of the Leptospira agent in urban informal settlements. Frontiers In Public Health 2024, 12: 1447592. PMID: 39360250, PMCID: PMC11445007, DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1447592.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRat abundanceReservoir abundanceAbundance of ratsEnvironmentally transmitted diseasesVegetation land coverInfection riskSexually mature ratsHuman infection riskLive trapsUrban informal settlementsZoonotic spilloverLand coverSpatial variationHydrological factorsValley bottomTrack plateAbundanceHuman riskShedding rateMature ratsEco-epidemiological studiesLeptospira infectionSpillover transmissionSpatial distributionInformal settlements
1999
Long-Term Studies of Hantavirus Reservoir Populations in the Southwestern United States: Rationale, Potential, and Methods - Volume 5, Number 1—February 1999 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
Mills J, Yates T, Ksiazek T, Peters C, Childs J. Long-Term Studies of Hantavirus Reservoir Populations in the Southwestern United States: Rationale, Potential, and Methods - Volume 5, Number 1—February 1999 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1999, 5: 95-101. PMID: 10081676, PMCID: PMC2627686, DOI: 10.3201/eid0501.990111.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHantavirus pulmonary syndromeInfectious Diseases journal - CDCIncidence of infectionHuman hantavirus diseasePulmonary syndromeHantavirus diseaseHantavirus infectionHemorrhagic feverRenal syndromeDisease controlLong-term studiesHantavirus reservoir populationsZoonotic agentsPrevention measuresSyndromeTerm studiesUnited StatesInfectionDiseaseHPS outbreaksPreventionHuman riskRodent hostsHuman diseasesReservoir populations