ArticleCommunications biology2021
Invasive Burmese pythons alter host use and virus infection in the vector of a zoonotic virus.
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- Reappraisal of the Dilution and Amplification Effect Framework: A Case Study in Lyme Disease.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- The Release of Non-Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Optimizing survey conditions for Burmese python detection and removal using community science data.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Reservoir displacement by an invasive rodent reduces Lassa virus zoonotic spillover risk.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Mammalian lures monitored with time-lapse cameras increase detection of pythons and other snakes.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Everglades virus: an underrecognized disease-causing subtype of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus endemic to Florida, USA.Journal of medical entomology · 2023Article
- Host Associations ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Predicting potential transmission risk of Everglades virus in Florida using mosquito blood meal identifications.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2022Article
- Everglades virus evolution: Genome sequence analysis of the envelope 1 protein reveals recent mutation and divergence in South Florida wetlands.Virus evolution · 2022Article
- Human-mediated impacts on biodiversity and the consequences for zoonotic disease spillover.Current biology : CB · 2021Review
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Abstract
The composition of wildlife communities can have strong effects on transmission of zoonotic vector-borne pathogens, with more diverse communities often supporting lower infection prevalence in vectors (dilution effect). The introduced Burmese python, Python bivittatus, is eliminating large and medium-sized mammals throughout southern Florida, USA, impacting local communities and the ecology of zoonotic pathogens. We investigated invasive predator-mediated impacts on ecology of Everglades virus (EVEV), a zoonotic pathogen endemic to Florida that circulates in mosquito-rodent cycle. Using binomial generalized linear mixed effects models of field data at areas of high and low python densities, we show that increasing diversity of dilution host (non-rodent mammals) is associated with decreasing blood meals on amplifying hosts (cotton rats), and that increasing cotton rat host use is associated with increasing EVEV infection in vector mosquitoes. The Burmese python has caused a dramatic decrease in mammal diversity in southern Florida, which has shifted vector host use towards EVEV amplifying hosts (rodents), resulting in an indirect increase in EVEV infection prevalence in vector mosquitoes, putatively elevating human transmission risk. Our results indicate that an invasive predator can impact wildlife communities in ways that indirectly affect human health, highlighting the need for conserving biological diversity and natural communities.
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