Puumala Virus in Bank Voles, Lithuania

Straková, Petra; Jagdmann, Sandra; Balčiauskas, Linas; Balčiauskienė, Laima; Drewes, Stephan; Ulrich, Rainer G.

doi:10.3201/eid2301.161400

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“…Then bank voles migrated northward, up to Denmark, Finland, and Russia [14,27,76,83,88,89]. Obviously, migrations of these different phylogroups led to several contact zones where PUUV may circulate today; one between the Ural and Western phylogroups is located in northern Sweden and Norway [76,89,90], another between the Eastern and Ural phylogroups crosses north-central Finland [76,91], and a third one between the Eastern and Carpathian phylogroups in Latvia [14,82,92] (See for a synthesis Figure 1 of [93]).…”

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Phylogeography of Puumala orthohantavirus in Europe

Castel

Chevenet

Razzauti

et al. 2019

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Puumala virus is an RNA virus hosted by the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) and is today present in most European countries. Whilst it is generally accepted that hantaviruses have been tightly co-evolving with their hosts, Puumala virus (PUUV) evolutionary history is still controversial and so far has not been studied at the whole European level. This study attempts to reconstruct the phylogeographical spread of modern PUUV throughout Europe during the last postglacial period in the light of an upgraded dataset of complete PUUV small (S) segment sequences and by using most recent computational approaches. Taking advantage of the knowledge on the past migrations of its host, we identified at least three potential independent dispersal routes of PUUV during postglacial recolonization of Europe by the bank vole. From the Alpe-Adrian region (Balkan, Austria, and Hungary) to Western European countries (Germany, France, Belgium, and Netherland), and South Scandinavia. From the vicinity of Carpathian Mountains to the Baltic countries and to Poland, Russia, and Finland. The dissemination towards Denmark and North Scandinavia is more hypothetical and probably involved several independent streams from south and north Fennoscandia.

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Phylogeography of Puumala orthohantavirus in Europe

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Chevenet

Razzauti

et al. 2019

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“…The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a long history of providing technical assistance for FETPs ( 1 , 2 ), which were mostly modeled on CDC’s 2-year applied training through service program, the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). Currently, CDC provides technical assistance to >65 FETPs throughout the world.…”

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Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Programs as a Strategy to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response

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Perkins³

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Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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Since 1980, Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) have trained highly qualified field epidemiologists to work for ministries of health (MOH) around the world. However, the 2013–2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which primarily affected Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, demonstrated a lack of field epidemiologists at the local levels. Trained epidemiologists at these levels could have detected the Ebola outbreak earlier. In 2015, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched FETP-Frontline, a 3-month field training program targeting local MOH staff in 24 countries to augment local public health capacity. As of December 2016, FETP-Frontline has trained 1,354 graduates in 24 countries. FETP-Frontline enhances global health security by training local public health staff to improve surveillance quality in their jurisdictions, which can be a valuable strategy to strengthen the capacity of countries to more rapidly detect, respond to, and contain public health emergencies at the source.

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“…The importance of studies of small mammal species composition in homesteads and kitchen gardens is connected with urban development [19], which in some countries includes the expansion of residential gardens [53], as well as with rodent damage and development of control measures [55,72], and problems with pathogen transmission by synantropic, agrophilic and peridomestic rodents [25,27,28,32,73]. For example, M. glareolus, being the second by numbers in the homestead, was found carrying the human pathogenic Puumala virus in East Lithuania [74]. According to [39], our results will contribute to an understanding of the ability of small mammals to persist under anthropogenic pressure (differences between species in the use of resources, adaptation patterns, and selection of traits) and ensuring cohabitation.…”

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On the Doorstep, Rodents in Homesteads and Kitchen Gardens

Balčiauskas

Balčiauskienė

2020

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Scarcely investigated in terms of small mammals, kitchen gardens and homesteads form a subset of environments. Using results of snap trapping, we present the first data on small mammal species diversity, gender and age structure, relative abundance, body fitness, and reproduction parameters in these commensal habitats (kitchen gardens, homestead gardens, houses, and outbuildings). We expected that (i) house mice should be the dominant species in buildings, while striped field mice should be dominant in gardens, (ii) body condition should be the highest in buildings, (iii) body condition should increase in the autumn, irrespective of the habitat, and (iv) breeding failures in the form of disrupted pregnancies should be observed. Not all of the predictions were confirmed. From the seven recorded species, gardens and outbuildings were dominated by yellow-necked mice, while bank voles dominated in buildings where food was available. The number of recorded species and diversity index increased during the autumn months. The body condition was highest in rodents that were trapped in gardens. It decreased towards winter, with the exception of the striped field mouse. Breeding disturbances were recorded in all of the most numerous species, comprising 16.7–100% of all observed pregnancies.

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Puumala Virus in Bank Voles, Lithuania

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Phylogeography of Puumala orthohantavirus in Europe

Phylogeography of Puumala orthohantavirus in Europe

Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Programs as a Strategy to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response

On the Doorstep, Rodents in Homesteads and Kitchen Gardens

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