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Unraveling the Mechanistic Links Between Species Diversity and Infection Risk From Zoonotic Pathogens With Direct Transmission Among Reservoir Hosts: Rodent‐Orthohantavirus Systems as Models

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2025.
In this review, we synthesize mechanistic evidence for diversity‐disease patterns in rodent‐orthohantavirus systems in the Americas, models of directly transmitted disease systems. We found that host regulation has been examined the most while other mechanisms have received less attention. Based on our findings, we propose that for a negative diversity‐
Andreas Eleftheriou, Angela D. Luis
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in commensal rodents sampled across Senegal, West Africa

Parasite, 2018
Risks related to Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans remain poorly known in Senegal. Although rodent surveys could help to assess the circulation of T. gondii, they have seldom been set up in sub-Saharan Africa.
Brouat Carine, Diagne Christophe Amidi, Ismaïl Khadija, Aroussi Abdelkrim, Dalecky Ambroise, Bâ Khalilou, Kane Mamadou, Niang Youssoupha, Diallo Mamoudou, Sow Aliou, Galal Lokman, Piry Sylvain, Dardé Marie-Laure, Mercier Aurélien   +13 more
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Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence

Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 63, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract Major infectious diseases threatening human health are transmitted to people from animals or by arthropod vectors such as insects. In recent decades, disease outbreaks have become more common, especially in tropical regions, including new and emerging infections that were previously undetected or unknown. Even though there is growing awareness
M. Cristina Rulli, Paolo D’Odorico, Nikolas Galli, Reju S. John, Renata L. Muylaert, Monia Santini, David T. S. Hayman   +6 more
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Is What Comes out the Same as What Goes in? A Preliminary Investigation of the Isotopic Impacts of Digestion by Red‐Tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) and Eurasian Eagle Owls (Bubo bubo)

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2025.
Isotope analysis of predator feces and consumed prey remains can be used to non‐invasively track diet and reconstruct past environment and climate conditions. However, one must account for the isotopic difference between diet and feces, as well as the possible influence of digestion on consumed prey tissues.
Brooke Erin Crowley, Madison Laurel Greenwood, Rachel Elizabeth Brown Reid   +2 more
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Population genetic structure of two ecologically distinct multimammate rats : the commensal Mastomys natalensis and the wild Mastomys erythroleucus in Southeastern Senegal

, 2006
Correspondence: brouat@mpl.ird.frInternational audienceUsing the same set of microsatellite markers, we compared the population genetic structure of two Mastomys species, one being exclusively commensal in southeastern Senegal, and the other being ...
Duplantier, Jean-Marc, J.-M., Brouat, Carine, Duplantier, Jean-Marc,, Loiseau, Anne, Kane, M.   +4 more
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Detection and Determinants of Leptospira Infection in Rodents, Cattle, and Humans in Muheza District, Tanzania: A Call for One Health Approach

Public Health Challenges, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2025.
This study showed co‐agglutination among rodents, cattle, and humans with serovars Hebdomadis, Sokoine, and Grippotyphosa. This study shed light on pathogenic serovars circulating among humans, rodents, and cattle and factors associated with seropositivity.
Gamba Gerald Manyama, Gerald Dickson Mlowe, Athumani Msalale Lupindu, Abdul Suleman Katakweba   +3 more
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Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland–Urban Interface

Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 2, February 2025.
In the wildland–urban interface (WUI), where human settlements abut or intermix with wildlands, people may encounter animals that host zoonotic pathogens, which can spillover to cause human disease. We map the distribution of zoonotic hosts in the global WUI and show that large populations in tropical low–middle‐income countries (LMICs) are potentially
Rohan D. Simkin, Barbara A. Han, Volker C. Radeloff, Shannon LaDeau, Franz Schug, Karen C. Seto   +5 more
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Species Composition and Population Status of Rodents in and Around Yeraba Priority State Forest Northwestern Ethiopia

International Journal of Zoology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Rodents are successful animals in every continent because of their having comparatively little size, short breeding cycle, and capacity to survive on a variety of food items. Rodents are bioindicators. Therefore, the study on the species composition and population status of rodents in and around Yeraba Priority State Forest, located in northwest ...
Aragaw Workie, Eshetu Moges, Mezgebu Ashagrie, Binega Derebe, Marco Cucco   +4 more
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Gairo virus, a novel arenavirus of the widespread Mastomys natalensis: Genetically divergent, but ecologically similar to Lassa and Morogoro viruses

, 2015
Despite its near pan-African range, the Natal multimammate mouse, Mastomys natalensis, carries the human pathogen Lassa virus only in West Africa, while the seemingly non-pathogenic arenaviruses Mopeia, Morogoro, and Luna have been detected in this semi ...
Günther, Stephan, Gryseels, Sophie, Rieger, Toni, Borremans, Benny, Goüy de Bellocq, Joëlle, Oestereich, Lisa, Makundi, Rhodes, Cuypers, Bart, Leirs, Herwig, Go\ufcy de Bellocq, Jo\ueblle   +9 more
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Reservoir displacement by an invasive rodent reduces Lassa virus zoonotic spillover risk

Nature Communications
The black rat (Rattus rattus) is a globally invasive species that has been widely introduced across Africa. Within its invasive range in West Africa, R.
Evan A. Eskew, Brian H. Bird, Bruno M. Ghersi, James Bangura, Andrew J. Basinski, Emmanuel Amara, Mohamed A. Bah, Marilyn C. Kanu, Osman T. Kanu, Edwin G. Lavalie, Victor Lungay, Willie Robert, Mohamed A. Vandi, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Scott L. Nuismer   +14 more
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