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Land use gradients drive spatial variation in Lassa fever host communities in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. [PDF]

J Anim Ecol
As West Africa urbanises, the risk of Lassa fever may paradoxically decrease. We found the invasive house mouse, a dominant urban species, outcompetes and displaces the primary Lassa virus host. Considering these species interactions is critical for accurately predicting future zoonotic disease patterns.
Simons D, Gibb R, Bangura U, Sondufu D, Lamin J, Koninga J, Foday M, Dawson M, Lahai J, Ansumana R, Fichet-Calvet E, Watson-Jones D, Kock R, Jones KE.   +13 more
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Partitioning Social and Spatial Drivers of Infection Risk. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Contact rates drive disease spread, yet are often oversimplified as uniform across individuals. Using data on Mastomys natalensis, we show that exposure to Morogoro virus is linked to spatial overlap with infected conspecifics, but not overall overlap, and that direct contact occurs with only a few individuals despite broad home range overlap ...
Kirkpatrick L, Mariën J, Sabuni C, Mwamundela B, Leirs H.   +4 more
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Detection of Lassa Virus-Reactive IgG Antibodies in Wild Rodents: Validation of a Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunological Assay

Viruses, 2022
The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of LASV-reactive IgG antibodies in Mastomys rodents.
Hugo Soubrier, Umaru Bangura, Chris Hoffmann, Ayodeji Olayemi, Adetunji Samuel Adesina, Stephan Günther, Lisa Oestereich, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet   +7 more
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Molecular characterization of pneumococcal isolates from pets and laboratory animals. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
BACKGROUND: Between 1986 and 2008 Streptococcus pneumoniae was isolated from 41 pets/zoo animals (guinea pigs (n = 17), cats (n = 12), horses (n = 4), dogs (n = 3), dolphins (n = 2), rat (n = 2), gorilla (n = 1)) treated in medical veterinary ...
Mark van der Linden, Adnan Al-Lahham, Werner Nicklas, Ralf René Reinert   +3 more
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Host competence of the African rodents Arvicanthis neumanni, A. niloticus and Mastomys natalensis for Leishmania donovani from Ethiopia and L. (Mundinia) sp. from Ghana

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020
Visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania donovani is regarded as mostly anthroponotic, but a role for animal reservoir hosts in transmission has been suggested in East Africa.
Jovana Sadlova, Barbora Vojtkova, Tomas Becvar, Tereza Lestinova, Tatiana Spitzova, Paul Bates, Petr Volf   +6 more
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Isolation of three novel rat and mouse papillomaviruses and their genomic characterization. [PDF]

, 2012
Despite a growing knowledge about the biological diversity of papillomaviruses (PV), only little is known about non-human PV in general and about PV mice models in particular.
Gottschling, Marc, Nindl, Ingo, Richter, Dania, Schulz, Eric, Stockfleth, Eggert, Ulrich, Rainer G.   +5 more
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Special Issue “Arenaviruses 2020”

Viruses, 2021
Rodent-borne arenaviruses have been traditionally predominantly associated with certain muroid species from Mastomys/Praomys genera (African arenaviruses) or with species that belong to murid subfamily Cricetidae (New World arenaviruses) [...]
Igor S. Lukashevich, Juan Carlos de la Torre   +1 more
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Comparative Genomic Characterization of the Multimammate Mouse Mastomys coucha. [PDF]

, 2019
Mastomys are the most widespread African rodent and carriers of various diseases such as the plague or Lassa virus. In addition, mastomys have rapidly gained a large number of mammary glands.
Aaron Hardin, Andersen, Bao, Besemer, Bickhart, Blanchette, Bolger, Bonwitt, Booker, Bourque, Camacho, Capra, Chapman, Chen, Chikhi, Chu, Colangelo, Dewey, Dierckxsens, Eblaghie, Grabherr, Hayssen, Heinz, Helfrich, Holloway, Holt, Jiang, Kannan, Kiełbasa, Kim, Kimberly A Nevonen, Kolmogorov, Korf, Krueger, Lecompte, Li, Li, Lok, Lowe, Lucia Carbone, MacManes, McLean, Modlin, Nadav Ahituv, Nagy, Nilsson, Närhi, Pennacchio, Pertea, Pimentel, Pollard, Sands, Schep, Scott, Siepel, Siepel, Simão, Smit, Snell, Song, Stanke, UniProt Consortium, Van der Auwera, Veltmaat, Veltmaat, Walter L Eckalbar   +65 more
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Establishment of an Immortalized Skin Keratinocyte Cell Line Derived from the Animal Model Mastomys coucha. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
In the present report we describe the establishment of a spontaneous immortalized skin keratinocyte cell line derived from the skin of the multimammate rodent Mastomys coucha.
Daniel Hasche, Sonja Stephan, Larissa Savelyeva, Frank Westermann, Frank Rösl, Sabrina E Vinzón   +5 more
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Comparison of rodent community between natural and modified habitats in Kafta-Sheraro National Park and its adjoining villages, Ethiopia: implication for conservation

Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, 2019
Background Distribution and diversity of rodents vary across habitats due to different environmental factors. An ecological comparative study on diversity and abundance of rodents was conducted in Kafta-Sheraro National Park and its nearby villages from ...
Alembrhan Assefa, Srinivasulu Chelmala
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