The ecology of infectious disease: Effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk

By K. Logiudice, Richard S. Ostfeld, K. Schmidt, Felicia Keesing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Parasitology

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Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease (2012, background): “…and infection indicate that, as species are added to low-diversity communities (mice only), both tick infection prevalence and population density of infected ticks decline (Keesing & Ostfeld 2012; Keesing et al. 2009; LoGiudice et al. 2003, 2008; Ostfeld & LoGiudice 2003; Schmidt & Ostfeld 2001).”
Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology (2009, neutral): “For Lyme disease and WNV, high risk or incidence is associated with the loss of vertebrate diversity, which in turn is associated with certain types of habitat destruction and fragmentation (Allan et al. 2003, LoGiudice et al. 2003, Ezenwa et al. 2006).”
Spatial epidemiology: an emerging (or re-emerging) discipline. (2005, background): “For instance, Lyme disease in North America is largely restricted to the northeastern and upper Midwestern USA in spite of widespread populations of the tick vector in southeastern and lower Midwestern regions [14, 15 ] .T he invasion of North America by West Nile Virus appears unrelated to changes ”
Effects of species diversity on disease risk. (2006, background): “The presence of alternative (non-mouse) hosts in diverse host communities can lead to vector regulation, because ticks that feed on mice are more likely to survive to moult than are ticks that feed on some other hosts (Randolph 1979; Craig et al. 1996; LoGiudice et al. 2003).”
Infectious diseases in wildlife: the community ecology context (2007, background): “For example, the risk to humans of contracting Lyme disease is reduced when there is a greater diversity of potential hosts for the disease-bearing tick (LoGiudice et al. 2003).”
COMMUNITY DISASSEMBLY, BIODIVERSITY LOSS, AND THE EROSION OF AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE (2003, methodology): “R ep o r ts We (LoGiudice et al. 2003) recently parameterized a model that accounts for the role of each potentially important vertebrate species in determining the nymphal tick infection prevalence (or NIP), which is an epidemiologically relevant risk factor for Lyme disease (Ostfeld et al. 2002).”
Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services (2005, background): “Modeling analyses of data collected in southeastern New York State suggests that the current level of mammal biodiversity decreases disease risk to humans by up to 50% relative to realistic scenarios of decreased biodiversity (Schmidt and Ostfeld 2001; LoGiudice et al. 2003; Ostfeld and LoGiudice 20”
Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (2004, background): “1997), while competitors that are poor carriers of pathogens may “dilute” them and decrease transmission (LoGiudice et al. 2003).”
Urbanization and the ecology of wildlife diseases (2006, background): “Studies in suburban environments of northeastern USA, characterized by high forest-edge and low mammalian biodiversity,indicatethatagreaterproportionalabundance of the most competent reservoir for B. burgdorferi (the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus) is linked to increased infection prevalenc”
Local habitat and landscape affect Ixodes ricinus tick abundances in forests on poor, sandy soils (2012, background): “In the United States, a similar association between populations of competent rodent reservoirs (white-footed mouse) for Lyme borreliosis and ecotones was described (LoGiudice et al., 2003).”