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Strengthening public health by understanding the epidemiology of rodent-borne diseases
Project
Project code: JKI-GF-08-1216
Contract period: 01.08.2017
- 30.06.2020
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Hantaviruses and Leptospira spp. cause life-threatening and notifiable human diseases and are transmitted by persistently infected rodents. The emergence of disease clusters or outbreaks of both pathogens is complex and associated with individual pathogen properties, environmental factors, as well as geographical distribution, rodent reservoir association and host population dynamics. Finally, susceptibility and behavior of the human population strongly affects likelihood of infection. This interdisciplinary consortium aims to create the necessary knowledge of the epidemiology of hantaviruses and Leptospira and to translate these findings into public health intervention measures. Within this OneHealth initiative the pathogen-, rodent reservoir-, environment- related aspects of pathogen transmission as well as human disease manifestation and detection, and social aspects of awareness and risk perception will be studied. The final objective is to perform a risk assessment and to generate risk maps, early warning modules, risk management plans and public health recommendations. Predictive models for forecasting rodent outbreaks can also be beneficial for timely action to prevent rodent damage in agriculture and forestry.
Section overview
Subjects
- Toxicology
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests (JKI-GF)
