Rodent Virus Diversity and Differentiation across Post-Katrina New Orleans

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Anna C. Peterson, Himanshu Sharma, Arvind Kumar, Bruno M. Ghersi, Scott J. Emrich, Kurt J. Vandegrift, Amit Kapoor, Michael J. Blum
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: abandonment; disaster; emerging infectious disease; pathogens; surveillance; urban; virome; Orleans; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148034

Concern about elevated disease risk following disasters has been growing with the progression of global trends in urbanization and climate, in part because shifts in socioecological conditions can promote greater human contact with pathogen reservoirs in cities. Remarkably little is known, however,...