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SUBMITTER: Sun Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599787 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sun Zhe Z Xu Lei L Schmid Boris V BV Dean Katharine R KR Zhang Zhibin Z Xie Yan Y Fang Xiye X Wang Shuchun S Liu Qiyong Q Lyu Baolei B Wan Xinru X Xu Jianguo J Stenseth Nils Chr NC Xu Bing B
Royal Society open science 20190619 6
Plague remains a threat to public health and is considered as a re-emerging infectious disease today. Rodents play an important role as major hosts in plague persistence and driving plague outbreaks in natural foci; however, few studies have tested the association between host diversity in ecosystems and human plague risk. Here we use zero-inflated generalized additive models to examine the association of species richness with human plague presence (where plague outbreaks could occur) and intens ...[more]