ArticleVector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.)2018
An Evaluation of Removal Trapping to Control Rodents Inside Homes in a Plague-Endemic Region of Rural Northwestern Uganda.
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- Rodent control strategies and Lassa virus: some unexpected effects in Guinea, West Africa.Emerging microbes & infections · 2024Article
- Impact of Sanitation on Rodent Pullulation and Plague Status in an Informal Settlement on the Outskirts of Mahajanga (Madagascar).Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Surveillance of Fleas and Their Small Mammal Hosts for Plague Risks in Some Main Seaports of the Islands of the Southwestern Indian Ocean.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Exploring and Mitigating Plague for One Health Purposes.Current tropical medicine reports · 2022Article
- Rodent control to fight plague: field assessment of methods based on rat density reduction.Integrative zoology · 2021Article
- Efficacy of Management and Monitoring Methods to Prevent Post-Harvest Losses Caused by Rodents.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Diagnostics for Lassa fever virus: a genetically diverse pathogen found in low-resource settings.BMJ global health · 2019Article
- Prairie Dogs, Persistent Plague, Flocking Fleas, and Pernicious Positive Feedback.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2019Article
- Rodent control to fight Lassa fever: Evaluation and lessons learned from a 4-year study in Upper Guinea.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
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Abstract
Rodents pose a significant threat to human health, particularly in rural subsistence farming communities in Africa, where rodents threaten food security and serve as reservoirs of human pathogens, including the agents of plague, leptospirosis, murine typhus, rat-bite fever, Lassa fever, salmonellosis, and campylobacteriosis. Our study focused on the plague-endemic West Nile region of Uganda, where a majority of residents live in Uganda government-defined poverty, rely on subsistence farming for a living, and frequently experience incursions of rodents into their homes. In this study, we show that rodent removal was achieved in a median of 6 days of intensive lethal trapping with multiple trap types (range: 0-16 days). However, rodent abundance in 68.9% of homesteads returned to pretreatment levels within a median of 8 weeks (range 1-24 weeks), and at least a single rodent was captured in all homesteads by a median of 2 weeks (range 1-16 weeks) after removal efforts were terminated. Results were similar between homesteads that practiced rodent control whether or not their neighbors implemented similar strategies. Overall, intensive lethal trapping inside homes appears to be effective at reducing rodent abundance, but control was short lived after trapping ceased.
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