Modeling potential risk areas of Orthohantavirus transmission in Northwestern Argentina using an ecological niche approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is a rodent-borne zoonosis in the Americas, with up to 50% mortality rates. In Argentina, the Northwestern endemic area presents half of the annually notified HPS cases in the country, transmitted by at least three rodent species recognized as reservoirs of Orthohantavirus. The potential distribution of reservoir species based on ecological niche models (ENM) can be a useful tool to establish risk areas for zoonotic diseases. Our main aim was to generate an Orthohantavirus risk transmission map based on ENM of the reservoir species in northwest Argentina (NWA), to compare this map with the distribution of HPS cases; and to explore the possible effect of climatic and environmental variables on the spatial variation of the infection risk

SUBMITTER: Lopez WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10294401 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature