2021
Urban rat exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides and zoonotic infection risk
Murray M, Sánchez C. Urban rat exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides and zoonotic infection risk. Biology Letters 2021, 17: 20210311. PMID: 34376077, PMCID: PMC8355682, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0311.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPredictors of infectionNo significant associationIncreased infection riskAnticoagulant rodenticidesOld ratsRatsSignificant associationAnimal-to-humanInfectionRodent pest populationsInfection riskRisk of pathogenic infectionPathogen infectionRiskPest populationsPublic health riskDisease ecologyHealth risksBidirectional relationshipZoonotic pathogensNatural systemsSpillover of zoonotic pathogens: A review of reviews
Sánchez C, Venkatachalam‐Vaz J, Drake J. Spillover of zoonotic pathogens: A review of reviews. Zoonoses And Public Health 2021, 68: 563-577. PMID: 34018336, DOI: 10.1111/zph.12846.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsAnimals, WildCluster AnalysisCommunicable Diseases, EmergingHumansLivestockPublic HealthZoonoses
2020
Landscape-level toxicant exposure mediates infection impacts on wildlife populations
Sánchez C, Altizer S, Hall R. Landscape-level toxicant exposure mediates infection impacts on wildlife populations. Biology Letters 2020, 16: 20200559. PMID: 33202181, PMCID: PMC7728674, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0559.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEffects of toxicantsContaminated habitatsWildlife populationsToxicant exposureSublethal effects of toxicantsDensity of infected hostsAnthropogenic landscape modificationImpact of pathogensWildlife movementUncontaminated habitatsSublethal effectsHost declinesLandscape modificationWildlife diseasesWildlifeHabitatExposure riskUrban landscapeLandscapeHost populationsHealth effectsToxic effectsHost healthPathogen transmissionReduced survival
2018
On the relationship between body condition and parasite infection in wildlife: a review and meta‐analysis
Sánchez C, Becker D, Teitelbaum C, Barriga P, Brown L, Majewska A, Hall R, Altizer S. On the relationship between body condition and parasite infection in wildlife: a review and meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters 2018, 21: 1869-1884. PMID: 30369000, DOI: 10.1111/ele.13160.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBody conditionCondition metricsBody condition metricsCosts of parasite infectionPredictors of variationWildlife systemsHost thermoregulationNegative relationshipEvaluated body conditionHost-parasite biologyWildlifeStudy of parasitesParasite impactEcologistsAnimal hostsParasitic infectionsAnimal healthInfection statusCourse of infectionHostParasitesPeer-reviewed studies
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