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Biodiversity, Wildlife & Pathogen Interfaces - session 2

From rats to residents: Orthohantavirus at the human–rodent–environment interface in informal urban settlements in Brazil
Ana Maria BARRETO (1), Hernán D. ARGIBAY (1), Caio G. ZEPPELINI (1,2), Adedayo M. AWONIYI (1), Fábio N. SOUZA (1), Fabiana ALMERINDA G. PALMA (1), Bárbara Inês ARCANJO XAVIER (1), Diogo C.C. SANTIAGO (3), Luciana H.B.V. DE MATTOS (4), Jorlan FERNANDES (4), Mitermayer G. DOS REIS (3,5,6), Max T. EYRE (7), Michael BEGON (8), Renata C DE OLIVEIRA (4), Hussein KHALIL (2), Federico COSTA (1,6), 1: Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil;
2: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden;
3: Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil;
4: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
5: Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil;
6: School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA;
7: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom;
8: University of Liverpool, Biosciences Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Land-use change restructures mammal communities and reshapes zoonotic pathogen dynamics in Amazonian landscapes
Maricruz JARAMILLO (1), Gabriela ALIAGA SAMANEZ (2), Luz Dary ACEVEDO (1), Fabián BELTRÁN-SAAVEDRA (1), Erika GARCÍA-BONILLA (3), Glenda AYALA (1), Charles C.Y. XU (2,4), Mathieu PRUVOT (4), Robert WALLACE (1), German FORERO (1), Mailyn GONZALEZ (3), Lucy KEATTS (1), Sarah OLSON (1), Alex GREENWOOD (2), 1: Wildlife Conservation Society;
2: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research;
3: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt;
4: University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Air sampling coupled with metagenomics accurately captures zoonotic virus diversity emerging from pig slaughterhouses in Cambodia
Peter CRONIN (1), Vireak HEANG (2), Jurre SIEGERS (2), Dolyce LOW (1), Yvonne SU (1), Gavin SMITH (1), Erik KARLSSON (2), 1: Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore;
2: Virology Unit, Institute Pasteur du Cambodge, Pasteur Network, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Health hazards in Peru's wildlife trade: Toward Operationalizing One Health
Paulo COLCHAO-CLAUX (1), Carlos CALVO-MAC (2), Micaela DE LA PUENTE-LEON (2,3), Jorge Luis MARTINEZ (1), Rosa VENTO (1), Yovana MURILLO (4), Lucy KEATTS (5), 1: Wildlife Conservation Society, Peru;
2: ONG ConservAccion;
3: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola;
4: Wildlife Conservation Society, Andes Amazonia Orinoquia;
5: Wildlife Conservation Society, Health Program