Association between anthropization and rodent reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens in Northwestern Mexico.

ABSTRACT: The world is facing a major pulse of ecological and social changes that may favor the risk of zoonotic outbreaks. Such risk facilitation may occur through the modification of the host's community diversity and structure, leading to an increase in pathogen reservoirs and the contact rate between these reservoirs and humans. Here, we examined whether anthropization alters the relative abundance and richness of zoonotic reservoir and non-reservoir rodents in three Socio-Ecological Systems. We hypothesized that anthropization increases the relative abundance and richness of rodent reservoirs while decreasing non-reservoir species. We first developed an Anthropization index based on 15 quantitative socio-ecological variables classified into five groups: 1) Vegetation type, 2) Urbanization degre

SUBMITTER: Mendoza H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10883555 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature