“…Distinguishing the confidence in host-pathogen data according to type of detection method has been shown to significantly improve models predicting zoonotic disease risk in rodents (Mull et al 2021). However, the information required to incorporate detection method as a variable in zoonotic disease risk models is rarely available from current host-pathogen databases or article metadata, with the important exception of (Olival et al, 2017), which we explore further here.…”