Linking Zoonosis Emergence to Farmland Invasion by Fluctuating Herbivores : Common Vole Populations and Tularemia Outbreaks in NW Spain

• Published in: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
• Main Authors: Herrero-Cófreces, Silvia, Mougeot, François, Lambin, Xavier, Luque-Larena, Juan José
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Environment and Food Security
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being; SDG 15 - Life on Land; colonizing rodent; Francisella tularensis; infectious pathogens; intensive agriculture; land-use changes; Microtus arvalis; QH301 Biology; General Veterinary; Other; QH301; Common vole
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/17182; https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.698454; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85113819103&partnerID=8YFLogxK

FUNDING This work contributes to the projects ECOTULA (CGL2015- 66962-C2-1-R) and BOOMRAT (PID2019-109327RB-I00) funded by the Government of Spain, and regional project GESINTTOP (co-funded by Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León—Junta de Castilla y León (ITACYL-JCYL), Diputación Provincial de Palencia and Diputación Provincial de Valladolid). SH-C was supported by a Ph.D. studentship from Junta de Castilla-y-León (co-funded by European Social Fund, Orden 10/11/2016). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to all the people that contributed to the long- term vole monitoring over the last 10 years (Leticia Arroyo, Daniel Jareño, Jose-Luis Guzmán, Ruth Rodríguez-Pastor, Juan Romairone, Deon Roos, and Cristina Marín) or contributed to the study of the Francisella—Microtus interactions (Dolors Vidal, Raquel Escudero, Pedro Anda, and Beatriz Arroyo). Peer reviewed