A Dataset of Small-Mammal Detections in West Africa and their Associated Micro-Organisms

Author:

Simons DavidORCID,Attfield Lauren A.,Jones Kate E.,Watson-Jones Deborah,Kock RichardORCID

Abstract

Rodents are a diverse, globally distributed and ecologically important order of mammals that are known and predicted hosts of zoonotic pathogens. The sampling of rodents and their pathogens are taxonomically and spatially biased which limits inference of the hazard of spillover of zoonotic pathogens into human populations from rodent vectors. Data on the distribution and occurrence of rodent hosts are typically derived from consolidated databases (e.g., IUCN, GBIF) which suffer from these biases. Here, we synthesise data from 127 rodent trapping studies, identified through a comprehensive search of the published literature from 1964-2022 conducted in 14 West African countries to provide an additional source of information that can supplement consolidated databases to characterise the range and occurrence of rodent species. We combine these occurrence data with results from reported pathogen screening to produce a dataset containing detection/non-detection data for 65,628 individual small mammals identified to species level from at least 1,611 trap sites in addition to 32 microorganisms identified to species and genus level that are known or potential pathogens. The produced dataset is formatted to Darwin Core Standard with associated metadata. This dataset is expected to mitigate some of the spatial and taxonomic biases in current databases to improve analyses of rodent-borne zoonotic pathogen spillover hazard across West Africa.

Publisher

Qeios Ltd

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