Land-cover, land-use and human hantavirus infection risk: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies suggest that the risk of human infection by hantavirus, a family of rodent-borne viruses, might be affected by different environmental determinants such as land cover, land use and land use change. This study examined the association between land-cover, land-use, land use change, and human hantavirus infection risk. PubMed and Scopus databases were interrogated using terms relative to land use (change) and human hantavirus disease. Screening and selection of the articles were completed by three independent reviewers. Classes of land use assessed by the different studies were categorized into three macro-categories of exposure ('Agriculture', 'Forest Cover', 'Urban Areas') to qualitatively synthesize the direction of the association between exposure variables and hantavirus

SUBMITTER: Moirano G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11338209 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature