Poverty, sanitation, and Leptospira transmission pathways in residents from four Brazilian slums.

• Main Authors: Hussein Khalil (Author), Roberta Santana (Author), Daiana de Oliveira (Author), Fabiana Palma (Author), Ricardo Lustosa (Author), Max T Eyre (Author), Ticiana Carvalho-Pereira (Author), Mitermayer G Reis (Author), Albert I Ko (Author), Peter J Diggle (Author), Yeimi Alzate Lopez (Author), Mike Begon (Author), Federico Costa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Residents of urban slums suffer from a high burden of zoonotic diseases due to individual, socioeconomic, and environmental factors. We conducted a cross-sectional sero-survey in four urban slums in Salvador, Brazil, to characterize how poverty and sanitation contribute to the transmission of rat-bo...