Hantavirus infections and small mammal diversity in Chile: No differences between protected and unprotected areas highlight the need for public health strategies

• Fernando Torres-Pérez ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fernando.torres@pucv.cl

  Affiliation Instituto de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8655-7288

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• Nicolás Ferrada,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

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• Roxana Astudillo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

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• Marcela Ferrés,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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• Pablo A. Vial,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile

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• Pablo A. Marquet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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• Alonso Parra,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Subsecretaría de Salud Pública, Ministerio de Salud, Santiago, Chile

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• Gregory J. Mertz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• R. Eduardo Palma

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Dirección de Postgrado, Universidad de O’Higgins, Rancagua, Chile

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