Browsing by Subject "Disease risk"

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    • Circulation of influenza in backyard productive systems in central Chile and evidence of spillover from wild birds 
      Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Di Pillo Sanhueza, Francisca; Bahl, Justin; Osorio, Jorge; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Elsevier, 2018-05)
      Backyard productive systems (BPS) are recognized as the most common form of animal production in the world. However, BPS frequently exhibit inherent biosecurity deficiencies, and could play a major role in the epidemiology ...
    • Does land-use change increase the abundance of zoonotic reservoirs? Rodents say yes 
      Mendoza, Hugo; Rubio Carrasco, André; García Peña, Gabriel E.; García Pena, Gabriel; Suzan, Gerardo; Simonetti Zambelli, Javier (Springer, 2020)
      Land-use change can raise the risk of human exposure to zoonotic diseases by increasing abundance of reservoir hosts. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis on the associations between land-use change and the abundance ...
    • Land-use change and rodent-borne diseases: hazards on the shared socioeconomic pathways 
      García Peña, Gabriel E.; Rubio Carrasco, André Víctor; Mendoza, Hugo; Fernández, Miguel; Milholland, Matthew T.; Aguirre, A. Alonso; Suzán, Gerardo; Zambrana Torrelio, Carlos (Royal Soc, England, 2021)
      Land-use change has a direct impact on species survival and reproduction, altering their spatio-temporal distributions. It acts as a selective force that favours the abundance and diversity of reservoir hosts and affects ...
    • Presence of influenza viruses in backyard poultry and swine in El Yali wetland, Chile 
      Bravo Vásquez, Nicolás; Di Pillo Sanhueza, Francisca; Lazo Quezada, Juan; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Elsevier, 2016)
      In South America little is known regarding influenza virus circulating in backyard poultry and swine populations. Backyard productive systems (BPS) that breed swine and poultry are widely distributed throughout Chile with ...