Grant Rickard

Arenavirus and hantavirus surveillance in small mammals tracks night-lights and accessibility; after adjusting for effort, fast-lived and synanthropic species are somewhat more often detected as hosts.

The paper reports the first Sin Nombre virus genome sequences from the Northwestern United States and voles, revealing high prevalence and evidence of viral reassortment.

This paper proposes the development of a database (ArHa) integrating host-pathogen dynamics and human disease data for Arenaviruses and Hantaviruses to improve risk assessments and public health interventions.