SynthesisOecologia2020
Hantavirus infection and biodiversity in the Americas.
Synthesis in Oecologia, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evidence of Juquitiba and Jaborá Orthohantavirus Co-Circulation in Rodent Communities of Argentina.EcoHealth · 2026Article
- Community Assembly Reveals How Environmental Controls Over Rodent Competition Drive Deer Mouse Density and Hantavirus Infection.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Andes hantavirus aboard an expedition cruise ship: A sentinel event for travel medicine and maritime biosurveillance.EXCLI journal · 2026Article
- Discovery and characterization of Sager Creek virus, a new orthohantavirus in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).Npj viruses · 2025Article
- Unraveling the Mechanistic Links Between Species Diversity and Infection Risk From Zoonotic Pathogens With Direct Transmission Among Reservoir Hosts: Rodent-Orthohantavirus Systems as Models.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Impact of vector richness on the risk of vector-borne disease: The role of vector competence.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- The impact of wildlife and environmental factors on hantavirus infection in the host and its translation into human risk.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Deciphering the Hantavirus Host Range Combining Virology and Species Distribution Models with an Emphasis on the Yellow Pygmy Rice Rat (Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Article
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Abstract
Species diversity has been proposed to decrease prevalence of disease in a wide variety of host-pathogen systems, in a phenomenon labeled the dilution effect. This phenomenon was first proposed and tested for vector-borne diseases but was later extended to directly transmitted parasite systems such as hantavirus. Though there seems to be clear evidence for the dilution effect in some hantavirus/rodent systems, the generality of this hypothesis remains debated. In the present meta-analysis, we examined the evidence supporting the dilution effect for hantavirus/rodent systems in the Americas. General linear models employed on data from 56 field studies identified the abundance of the reservoir rodent species and its relative proportion in the community as the only relevant variables explaining the prevalence of antibodies against hantavirus in the reservoir. Thus, we found no clear support for the dilution effect hypothesis for hantavirus/rodent systems in the Americas.
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