Effects of Land Use on Plague (Yersinia pestis) Activity in Rodents in Tanzania

摘要: Understanding the effects of land-use change on zoonotic disease risk is a pressing global health concern. Here, we compare prevalence Yersinia pestis, etiologic agent plague, in rodents across two types-agricultural and conserved-in northern Tanzania. Estimated abundance seropositive nearly doubled agricultural sites compared with conserved sites. This relationship between type likely mediated by changes rodent flea community composition, particularly via an increase commensal species, Mastomys natalensis, habitats. There was mixed support for species diversity negatively impacting Y. pestis seroprevalence. Together, these results suggest that could affect local transmission raise critical questions about dynamics at interface These findings emphasize importance understanding ecology context rapidly proceeding landscape change.