@article{fdi:010078903,
  title = {{R}odents as hosts of pathogens and related zoonotic disease risk},
  author = {{D}ahmana, {H}. and {G}ranjon, {L}aurent and {D}iagne, {C}. and {D}avoust, {B}. and {F}enollar, {F}. and {M}ediannikov, {O}leg},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{R}odents are known to be reservoir hosts for at least 60 zoonotic diseases and are known to play an important role in their transmission and spread in different ways. {W}e sampled different rodent communities within and around human settlements in {N}orthern {S}enegal, an area subjected to major environmental transformations associated with global changes. {H}erein, we conducted an epidemiological study on their bacterial communities. {O}ne hundred and seventy-one (171) invasive and native rodents were captured, 50 from outdoor trapping sites and 121 rodents from indoor habitats, consisting of five species. {T}he {DNA} of thirteen pathogens was successfully screened on the rodents' spleens. {W}e found: 2.3% of spleens positive to {P}iroplasmida and amplified one which gave a potentially new species {C}andidatus "{T}heileria senegalensis"; 9.35% of {B}artonella spp. and amplified 10, giving three genotypes; 3.5% of filariasis species; 18.12% of {A}naplasmataceae species and amplified only 5, giving a new potential species {C}andidatus "{E}hrlichia senegalensis"; 2.33% of {H}epatozoon spp.; 3.5% of {K}inetoplastidae spp.; and 15.2% of {B}orrelia spp. and amplified 8 belonging all to {B}orrelia crocidurae. {S}ome of the species of pathogens carried by the rodents of our studied area may be unknown because most of those we have identified are new species. {I}n one bacterial taxon, {A}naplasma, a positive correlation between host body mass and infection was found. {O}verall, male and invasive rodents appeared less infected than female and native ones, respectively.},
  keywords = {pathogens host ; zoonotic disease ; rodents ; {B}artonella ; {B}orrelia crocidurae ; {A}naplasmataceae ; {P}iroplasmida ; {H}epatozoon},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{P}athogens},
  volume = {9},
  numero = {3},
  pages = {art. 202 [21 p.]},
  year = {2020},
  DOI = {10.3390/pathogens9030202},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010078903},
}