Increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas
Urban greening has benefits for both human and environmental health. However, urban greening might also have negative effects as the abundance of wild rats, which can host and spread a great diversity of zoonotic pathogens, increases with urban greenness. Studies on the effect of urban greening on r...
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ftopenagrar:oai:www.openagrar.de:openagrar_mods_00088262 2024-09-15T18:32:06+00:00 Increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas de Cock, Marieke P. de Vries, Ankje Fonville, Manoj Esser, Helen J. Mehl, Calvin Ulrich, Rainer G. Joeres, Maike Hoffmann, Donata Eisenberg, Tobias Schmidt, Katja Hulst, Marcel van der Poel, Wim H.M. Sprong, Hein Maas, Miriam 2023-06-29 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165069 https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00088262 https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/openagrar_derivate_00053715/SD2023240.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723036926?via%3Dihub eng eng Elsevier BV Science of the Total Environment -- Sci. Total Environ. -- 0048-9697 -- 1879-1026 -- 121506-1 -- 1498726-0 -- 1146636-4 -- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00489697 -- https://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/epub/journal.php?journal_id=81&la=de -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?1498726 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165069 https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00088262 https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/openagrar_derivate_00053715/SD2023240.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723036926?via%3Dihub https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ public info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Text ddc:630 disease ecology -- rodents -- richness -- co-infection -- epidemiology -- ectoparasites article Text doc-type:article 2023 ftopenagrar https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165069 2024-07-08T23:56:24Z Urban greening has benefits for both human and environmental health. However, urban greening might also have negative effects as the abundance of wild rats, which can host and spread a great diversity of zoonotic pathogens, increases with urban greenness. Studies on the effect of urban greening on rat-borne zoonotic pathogens are currently unavailable. Therefore, we investigated how urban greenness is associated with rat-borne zoonotic pathogen prevalence and diversity, and translated this to human disease hazard. We screened 412 wild rats (Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus) from three cities in the Netherlands for 18 different zoonotic pathogens: Bartonella spp., Leptospira spp., Borrelia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Neoehrlichia mikurensis, Spiroplasma spp., Streptobacillus moniliformis, Coxiella burnetii, Salmonella spp., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)/AmpC-producing Escherichia coli, rat hepatitis E virus (ratHEV), Seoul orthohantavirus, Cowpox virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Toxoplasma gondii and Babesia spp. We modelled the relationships between pathogen prevalence and diversity and urban greenness. We detected 13 different zoonotic pathogens. Rats from greener urban areas had a significantly higher prevalence of Bartonella spp. and Borrelia spp., and a significantly lower prevalence of ESBL/AmpC-producing E. coli and ratHEV. Rat age was positively correlated with pathogen diversity while greenness was not related to pathogen diversity. Additionally, Bartonella spp. occurrence was positively correlated with that of Leptospira spp., Borrelia spp. and Rickettsia spp., and Borrelia spp. occurrence was also positively correlated with that of Rickettsia spp. Our results show an increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas, which for most pathogens was driven by the increase in rat abundance rather than pathogen prevalence. This highlights the importance of keeping rat ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Rattus rattus OpenAgrar (OA) Science of The Total Environment 896 165069 |
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Urban greening has benefits for both human and environmental health. However, urban greening might also have negative effects as the abundance of wild rats, which can host and spread a great diversity of zoonotic pathogens, increases with urban greenness. Studies on the effect of urban greening on rat-borne zoonotic pathogens are currently unavailable. Therefore, we investigated how urban greenness is associated with rat-borne zoonotic pathogen prevalence and diversity, and translated this to human disease hazard. We screened 412 wild rats (Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus) from three cities in the Netherlands for 18 different zoonotic pathogens: Bartonella spp., Leptospira spp., Borrelia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Neoehrlichia mikurensis, Spiroplasma spp., Streptobacillus moniliformis, Coxiella burnetii, Salmonella spp., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)/AmpC-producing Escherichia coli, rat hepatitis E virus (ratHEV), Seoul orthohantavirus, Cowpox virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Toxoplasma gondii and Babesia spp. We modelled the relationships between pathogen prevalence and diversity and urban greenness. We detected 13 different zoonotic pathogens. Rats from greener urban areas had a significantly higher prevalence of Bartonella spp. and Borrelia spp., and a significantly lower prevalence of ESBL/AmpC-producing E. coli and ratHEV. Rat age was positively correlated with pathogen diversity while greenness was not related to pathogen diversity. Additionally, Bartonella spp. occurrence was positively correlated with that of Leptospira spp., Borrelia spp. and Rickettsia spp., and Borrelia spp. occurrence was also positively correlated with that of Rickettsia spp. Our results show an increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas, which for most pathogens was driven by the increase in rat abundance rather than pathogen prevalence. This highlights the importance of keeping rat ... |
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de Cock, Marieke P. de Vries, Ankje Fonville, Manoj Esser, Helen J. Mehl, Calvin Ulrich, Rainer G. Joeres, Maike Hoffmann, Donata Eisenberg, Tobias Schmidt, Katja Hulst, Marcel van der Poel, Wim H.M. Sprong, Hein Maas, Miriam |
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de Cock, Marieke P. de Vries, Ankje Fonville, Manoj Esser, Helen J. Mehl, Calvin Ulrich, Rainer G. Joeres, Maike Hoffmann, Donata Eisenberg, Tobias Schmidt, Katja Hulst, Marcel van der Poel, Wim H.M. Sprong, Hein Maas, Miriam |
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Increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas |
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Increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas |
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Increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas |
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Increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas |
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Increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas |
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increased rat-borne zoonotic disease hazard in greener urban areas |
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