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Reply to Alfani: Reconstructing past plague ecology to understand human history.
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SYSNO ASEP 0582931 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type O - Ostatní Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Reply to Alfani: Reconstructing past plague ecology to understand human history. Author(s) Stenseth, N. C. (NO)
Bramanti, B. (NO)
Büntgen, Ulf (UEK-B) RID, ORCID, SAI
Fell, H. G. (GB)
Cohn, S. (GB)
Sebbane, F. (FR)
Slavin, P. (GB)
Zhang, C. (SG)
Yang, R. (CN)
Xu, L. (CN)Number of authors 10 Year of issue 2023 Source Title Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - : National Academy of Sciences - ISSN 0027-8424
Roč. 120, č. 11 (2023), e2300760120Number of pages 2 s. Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords bacterial virulence ; bacterial transmission ; disease reservoir ; ecology ; ectoparasite ; enzootic disease ; Europe ; Pulex irritans ; innate immunity ; spatiotemporal analysis ; Yersinia pestis Subject RIV EH - Ecology, Behaviour OECD category Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7) Research Infrastructure CzeCOS IV - 90248 - Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i. Method of publishing Open access Institutional support UEK-B - RVO:86652079 UT WOS 36877855 EID SCOPUS 85149999987 DOI 10.1073/pnas.2300760120 Annotation Alfani (1) provides important reflections on our recentwork, which argues against long-term wildlife-based plague reservoirs in historical Europe (2). Without natural reservoirs in Europe during the past 2,000 y, the plague bacterium
(Yersinia pestis) must have repeatedly spilled over from local-term reservoirs (3) or was introduced repeatedly from outside Europe by rodents (e.g., rats) and their ectoparasites (e.g., fleas) by infected people or contaminated
goods (Fig. 1). While recognized for the Third Pandemic in Europe (4), the hypothesis of several reintroductions of Y. pestis into Europe remains under debate for late-antique and medieval outbreaks. Two hypotheses of plague continuity
in Europe have been proposed (5): local persistence in reservoirs and external reimportation.Workplace Global Change Research Institute Contact Nikola Šviková, svikova.n@czechglobe.cz, Tel.: 511 192 268 Year of Publishing 2024 Electronic address https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2300760120
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