Trojan hosts: the menace of invasive vertebrates as vectors of pathogens in the Southern Cone of South America

Agriculture & Biology

• invasive species 84%
• vertebrates 80%
• pathogens 63%
• indigenous species 50%
• wildlife 34%
• Lepus europaeus 33%
• risk analysis 31%
• Columba livia 30%
• Lithobates catesbeianus 30%
• dogs 18%
• Trachemys scripta 17%
• government agencies 16%
• Neovison vison 16%
• disease surveillance 15%
• Sturnus vulgaris 15%
• Sturnidae 15%
• Sus scrofa 14%
• wild boars 14%
• ectoparasites 13%
• endangered species 11%
• Protozoa 11%
• extinction 11%
• biodiversity 9%
• ecosystems 8%
• viruses 7%
• bacteria 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• pathogen 100%
• South America 99%
• vertebrate 98%
• introduced species 94%
• native species 63%
• wildlife 30%
• ectoparasite 17%
• biodiversity loss 14%
• endangered species 13%
• deer 12%
• virus 11%
• surveillance 11%
• extinction 10%
• hazard 8%
• bacterium 7%
• ecosystem 7%
• rock 5%
• effect 5%