More people, more cats, more parasites: Human population density and temperature variation predict prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii oocyst shedding in free-ranging domestic and wild felids

• Sophie Zhu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sozhu@ucdavis.edu (SZ); kshapiro@ucdavis.edu (KS)

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8694-4058

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• Elizabeth VanWormer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EV and KS should be considered joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Karen Shapiro

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sozhu@ucdavis.edu (SZ); kshapiro@ucdavis.edu (KS)

  ¶‡ EV and KS should be considered joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

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