State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R. China.
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, P.R. China.
Sci Data. 2022 Jun 15;9(1):304. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01422-2.
The rodents and shrews are important reservoirs for a large number of zoonotic pathogens. Here by performing a literature review, we determined the occurrence and distribution of rodents and shrews in China at three scales including province, city, and county levels. The peer-reviewed papers published in English and Chinese were collected, standard procedures were applied in reference books, field surveys and websites to remove duplicates, and information on recorded locations of rodents and shrews was extracted. The dataset contains 13,911 records of geo-referenced occurrences for 364 rodents and shrews distributed over 1,663 locations distinguished. As pathogens continue to emerge from rodents and shrews, this dataset could assist efforts to put preliminary bounds around a variety of spatial analyses of rodents and shrews, facilitate a better understanding of the transmission risk of the pathogens they carry, and be helpful for assessing the risk of future emergence of rodent-borne zoonoses.
啮齿动物和鼩鼱是大量人畜共患病病原体的重要宿主。在这里，我们通过文献回顾，确定了啮齿动物和鼩鼱在中国三个尺度（包括省、市和县级）的发生和分布情况。收集了发表在英文和中文的同行评议论文，在参考书籍、实地调查和网站中应用标准程序去除重复项，并提取了记录的啮齿动物和鼩鼱地点信息。该数据集包含 364 种啮齿动物和鼩鼱的 13911 个地理位置记录，分布在 1663 个不同的地点。随着病原体继续从啮齿动物和鼩鼱中出现，该数据集可以帮助初步确定各种啮齿动物和鼩鼱的空间分析的范围，促进更好地了解它们携带的病原体的传播风险，并有助于评估未来啮齿动物传播的人畜共患病的出现风险。
