Plague reservoir species throughout the world

Mahmoudi A. Kryštufek B. Sludsky A. Schmid B.V. De Almeida A.M.P. Lei X. Ramasindrazana B. Bertherat E. Yeszhanov A. Stenseth N.C. Mostafavi E.
November 2021 John Wiley and Sons Inc

Integrative Zoology
2021 #16 Issue 6 820 - 833 pp.

Plague has been known since ancient times as a re-emerging infectious disease, causing considerable socioeconomic burden in regional hotspots. To better understand the epidemiological cycle of the causative agent of the plague, its potential occurrence, and possible future dispersion, one must carefully consider the taxonomy, distribution, and ecological requirements of reservoir-species in relation either to natural or human-driven changes (e.g. climate change or urbanization). In recent years, the depth of knowledge on species taxonomy and species composition in different landscapes has undergone a dramatic expansion, driven by modern taxonomic methods such as synthetic surveys that take into consideration morphology, genetics, and the ecological setting of captured animals to establish their species identities. Here, we consider the recent taxonomic changes of the rodent species in known plague reservoirs and detail their distribution across the world, with a particular focus on those rodents considered to be keystone host species. A complete checklist of all known plague-infectable vertebrates living in plague foci is provided as a Supporting Information table.

mammals , plague , reservoirs , rodents , taxonomy

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Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Urmia University, Iran
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute «Microbe», Saratov, Russian Federation
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Fiocruz PE, Recife, PE, Brazil
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management on Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Madagascar
Department of Infectious Hazard Management, Health Emergencies Programme, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
M.Aikimbaevs National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections, Almaty, Kazakhstan
National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran

Department of Biology
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Slovenian Museum of Natural History
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute «Microbe»
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES)
National Reference Laboratory for Plague
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management on Pest Insects and Rodents
Plague Unit
Department of Infectious Hazard Management
M.Aikimbaevs National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections
National Reference Laboratory for Plague

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