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Rodent-borne diseases and their public health importance in Iran. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 BackgroundRodents are reservoirs and hosts for several zoonotic diseases such as plague, leptospirosis, and leishmaniasis. Rapid development of industry and agriculture, as well as climate change throughout the globe, has led to change or increase in ...
Mohammad Hasan Rabiee +5 more
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Knowledge, attitude, and preventive practices toward rodent-borne diseases in Ngorongoro district, Tanzania [PDF]
Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2023 In addition to their economic significance, rodents are hosts and transmit diseases. Most of rodent-borne diseases are endemic in rural Africa and sporadically lead to epidemics.
Amina Issae +4 more
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Editorial: Rodent-borne diseases: “One Health” perspectives [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceVeasna Duong +4 more
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Impact of climate change on vector- and rodent-borne infectious diseases [PDF]
Journal of Health Monitoring, 2023 Background: Endemic and imported vector- and rodent-borne infectious agents can be linked to high morbidity and mortality. Therefore, vector- and rodent-borne human diseases and the effects of climate change are important public health issues.
Sandra Beermann +14 more
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Community perceptions of health and rodent-borne diseases along the Inter-Oceanic Highway in Madre de Dios, Peru [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Madre de Dios is located in the southeastern Amazonian region of Peru. Rodents have been estimated to be the reservoirs for up to 50 % of emerging zoonotic pathogens, including a host of viruses, bacteria, and parasites.
Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich +5 more
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Rodent-borne viruses survey in rural settlers from Central Brazil
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018 Anthropogenic environmental changes arising from settlement and agriculture include deforestation and replacement of natural vegetation by crops providing opportunities for pathogen spillover from animals to humans.
Jorlan Fernandes +9 more
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Transmission ecology of rodent‐borne diseases: New frontiers
Integrative Zoology, 2015 Rodents are recognized reservoir hosts for many human zoonotic pathogens. The current trends resulting from anthropocene defaunation suggest that in the future they, along with other small mammals, are likely to become the dominant mammals in almost all ...
Kim Blasdell, Serge Morand
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Rodent-borne infections in rural Ghanaian farming communities.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Rodents serve as reservoirs and/or vectors for several human infections of high morbidity and mortality in the tropics. Population growth and demographic shifts over the years have increased contact with these mammals, thereby increasing opportunities ...
Shirley C Nimo-Paintsil +9 more
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Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2021 Rodents can transmit infectious diseases directly to humans and other animals via bites and exposure to infectious salivary aerosols and excreta. Arthropods infected while blood-feeding on rodents can also transmit rodent-borne pathogens indirectly to ...
James H Diaz
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Rodent-borne and rodent-related diseases in Iran [PDF]
Comparative Clinical Pathology, 2018 Rodents cause large financial losses all over the world; in addition, these animals can also act as a reservoir and intermediate host or vector of diseases. Rodents have an important role in the distribution of diseases in an area.
Rouhullah Dehghani +2 more
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