Author response: Linking rattiness, geography and environmental degradation to spillover Leptospira infections in marginalised urban settings: An eco-epidemiological community-based cohort study in Brazil
Year: 2022
Type: peer-review
Abstract: While flooding events may drive spillover transmission of Leptospira spp. through dispersal of the bacteria at low elevations, at higher elevations environmental risk is more localised and directly driven by the distribution of local rat reservoir populations.
Source: eLife
Authors: Max T Eyre, Fábio N Souza, Ticiana SA Carvalho-Pereira, Nivison Nery, Daiana de Oliveira, Jaqueline S Cruz, Gielson A Sacramento, Hussein Khalil, Elsio A Wunder, Kathryn P Hacker, José E Hagan, James E Childs, Mitermayer G Reis, Mike Begon, Peter J Diggle, Albert I Ko, Emanuele Giorgi, Federico Costa
Institutions: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Lancaster University, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Yale University, Ministério da Saúde, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, University of Pennsylvania, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, University of Liverpool
Language: English
Subfield: Parasitology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,500
OpenAlex ID: W4304960296