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Overview

Herwig Leirs is a researcher affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, focusing notably on subfields such as Ecology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Epidemiology.

Their research topics encompass a variety of key areas including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Zoonotic diseases and public health, Viral Infections and Vectors, Research on Leishmaniasis Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research.

Herwig Leirs has published extensively, with recent papers including the following:

  • Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve, 2020, published in Oecologia
  • Risk of human-to-wildlife transmission of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, published in Mammal Review
  • The Animal Origin of Major Human Infectious Diseases: What Can Past Epidemics Teach Us About Preventing the Next Pandemic?, 2022, published in Zoonoses
  • Role of Wildlife in Emergence of Ebola Virus in Kaigbono (Likati), Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017, 2020, published in Emerging infectious diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Norway rats ( Rattus norvegicus ) from Antwerp sewer system, Belgium, 2021, published in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Frequent collaborators in their work include Joachim Mariën, Erik Verheyen, Sophie Gryseels, Christopher Sabuni, and Bram Vanden Broecke.

Herwig Leirs has contributed to multiple publications in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecology and Evolution, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Oecologia, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Notably, bioRxiv features the highest number of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Plague: past, present, and future.

    Nils Chr-H.-R. Stenseth;Bakyt B. Atshabar;Mike Begon;Steven R. Belmain

  • Mice, rats, and people: the bio‐economics of agricultural rodent pests

    Nils Chr Stenseth;Herwig Leirs;Anders Skonhoft;Stephen A. Davis

  • Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus.

    Robert Swanepoel;Sheilagh B. Smit;Pierre E. Rollin;Pierre Formenty

  • Stochastic seasonality and nonlinear density-dependent factors regulate population size in an African rodent.

    Herwig Leirs;Nils Chr. Stenseth;James D. Nichols;James E. Hines

  • Ecologically-based management of rodent pests: re-evaluating our approach to an old problem

    G. Singleton;H. Leirs;L. Hinds;Zhang Zhibin

  • Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation

    Nils Chr Stenseth;Noelle I. Samia;Hildegunn Viljugrein;Kyrre Linné Kausrud

  • Marburg hemorrhagic fever associated with multiple genetic lineages of virus.

    Daniel G. Bausch;Daniel G. Bausch;Stuart T. Nichol;Jean Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum;Matthias Borchert;Matthias Borchert

  • Interdisciplinary on-site evaluation of stone bunds to control soil erosion on cropland in Northern Ethiopia

    Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Desta Gebremichael;Karen Vancampenhout

  • Ecologically-Based Management of Rodent Pests

    Grant R. Singleton;Lyn A. Hinds;Herwig Leirs;Zhi-Bin Zhang

  • Predictive thresholds for plague in Kazakhstan.

    Stephen Davis;Mike Begon;Luc De Bruyn;Vladimir S. Ageyev

  • Fluctuating rodent populations and risk to humans from rodent-borne zoonoses

    S Davis;E Calvet;H Leirs

  • The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon

    S. Davis;P. Trapman;H. Leirs;H. Leirs;M. Begon

  • Hantavirus disease (nephropathia epidemica) in Belgium : effects of tree seed production and climate

    Katrien Tersago;Ronald Verhagen;A. Servais;P. Heyman

  • Search for the Ebola Virus Reservoir in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Reflections on a Vertebrate Collection

    Herwig Leirs;James N. Mills;John W. Krebs;James E. Childs

  • Forecasting rodent outbreaks in Africa-an ecological basis for Mastomys control in Tanzania

    Herwig Leirs;Ron Verhagen;Walter Verheyen;Patrick Mwanjabe

  • Plague and Climate: Scales Matter

    Tamara Ben Ari;Tamara Ben Ari;Simon Neerinckx;Kenneth L. Gage;Katharina Kreppel

  • Hantaviruses and their hosts in Europe: reservoirs here and there, but not everywhere?

    Gert E. Olsson;Herwig Leirs;Heikki Henttonen

  • Plague and the human flea, Tanzania.

    Anne Laudisoit;Herwig Leirs;Rhodes H Makundi;Stefan Van Dongen

  • Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve

    Harry P. Andreassen;Janne Sundell;Fraucke Ecke;Stefan Halle

  • Phylogeography of the introduced species Rattus rattus in the western Indian Ocean, with special emphasis on the colonization history of Madagascar

    Charlotte Tollenaere;Carine Brouat;Jean-Marc Duplantier;Lila Rahalison

  • The Year of the Rat ends - time to fight hunger!

    Bastiaan G Meerburg;Grant R Singleton;Herwig Leirs;Herwig Leirs

  • A model of Leptospirosis infection in an African rodent to determine risk to humans: seasonal fluctuations and the impact of rodent control

    John Holt;Stephen Davis;Herwig Leirs

  • Ecologically-based management of rodent pests

    G. Singleton;L. Hinds;H. Leirs;Zhang Zhibin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Verhagen
Ron Verhagen University of Antwerp
Erik Verheyen
Erik Verheyen Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Jozef Deckers
Jozef Deckers KU Leuven
Nils Chr. Stenseth
Nils Chr. Stenseth University of Oslo
Grant R. Singleton
Grant R. Singleton University of Greenwich
Hans Bauer
Hans Bauer University of Oxford
Michael Begon
Michael Begon University of Liverpool
Josef Bryja
Josef Bryja Czech Academy of Sciences
Stephan Günther
Stephan Günther Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Françoise Portaels
Françoise Portaels Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

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