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ReviewPathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Silent Carriers: The Role of Rodents in the Emergence of Zoonotic Bacterial Threats.

Shereen Basiouni, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales, Awad A Shehata, Phelipe Magalhães Duarte

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Review in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Spotted feverMicrobiology spectrum · 2026
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  3. Preliminary molecular detection and characterization ofOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Shereen BasiouniCenter for Preclinical Research, German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Alfonso J Rodriguez-MoralesFaculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima 15307, Peru.ORCID 0000-0001-9773-2192
Awad A ShehataTUM School of Natural Sciences, Bavarian NMR Center (BNMRZ), Structural Membrane Biochemistry, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5260-0778
Phelipe Magalhães DuartePostgraduate Program in Animal Bioscience, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife 52171-900, Pernambuco, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-2402-3576

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rodents are recognized as significant reservoirs for a broad range of zoonotic pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites, many of which have substantial implications for human and animal health. The intensifying interaction between humans and rodent populations, fuelled by urbanization, climate change, and global trade, has amplified the risk of zoonotic disease transmission. This review compiles and examines current knowledge on key rodent-borne bacterial diseases, including leptospirosis, rat-bite fever, plague, salmonellosis, tularemia, Lyme disease, rickettsioses, Babesiosis, and associated parasitic infections such as toxoplasmosis and Chagas disease. Each disease is analyzed in terms of its etiology, transmission, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tools, and treatment options, with a particular focus on the impact of environmental changes. Emphasizing a One Health perspective, this work highlights the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to the surveillance, prevention, and control of rodent-borne zoonoses, particularly in the context of increasing climate variability and anthropogenic pressures.

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Bacterial ZoonosesCarrier StateDisease ReservoirsRodentiaZoonosesAnimalsHumansbacteriaclimate changeone healthrodentszoonoses

Identifiers

PMID41011829
PMCPMC12472809

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