Influence of Host and Landscape-Associated Factors in the Infection and Transmission of Pathogens: The Case of Directly Transmitted Virus in Mammals.

Likewise, different studies show a positive trend between a higher host density and a higher viral prevalence and transmission in rodents (Boone et al. 2002 ), carnivores (Sidorov, Sidorova, and Poleshchuk 2010 ), ungulates (Zhang et al. 2022 ), and humans (Redding et al. 2016 ), due to a higher probability of contacts between susceptible and infectious individuals (Schuchert et al. 2014 , Zhang et al. 2022 ).

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