Contact
Tanja Strand
Title:Researcher
Research area :One Health, disease control, wild rats and their zoonotic pathogens (including Leptospira).
I work both as a researcher and as a research administrator. I am also the project manager for a three-year project granted from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. As both an ecologist and microbiologist, One Health questions are close to my heart. In addition, I am the coordinator of the network One Health Sweden.
Current projects
A digital platform adapted to target groups for dissemination of information on ehec
Start/end:2023 - 2023
Project manager :Anna Aspán
Disease Control for Voluntary defense organizations with animal contact
Start/end:2020 - 2022
Project manager :Tanja Strand
How to communicate One Health to children?
Start/end:2016 - 2019
Project manager :Karin Artursson
All projects
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Research articles
Genomic analyses reveal three independent introductions of the invasive brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) to the Faroe Islands (2020)
Rat-borne diseases at the horizon. A systematic review on infectious agents carried by rats in Europe 1995–2016 (2019)
Health and zoonotic Infections of snow leopards Panthera unica in the South Gobi desert of Mongolia (2019)
Detection of Leptospira in Urban Swedish Rats: Pest Control Interventions as a Promising Source of Rats Used for Surveillance (2019)
Leptospira bacteria detected in rodents in Tana River and Garissa counties of Kenya (2018)
Breeding consequences of flavivirus infection in the collared flycatcher (2018)
Global population divergence and admixture of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) (2016)
Highly Pathogenic Leptospira Found in Urban Brown Rats (Rattus norvegicus) in the Largest Cities of Sweden (2015)
First evidence of Seoul hantavirus in the wild rat population in the Netherlands (2015)
Evolutionary history of black grouse major histocompatibility complex class IIB genes revealed through single locus sequence-based genotyping (2013)