Bacteria
"From tiny studios to penthouse suites, New York City apartments are continually invaded by house mice", lead author Simon H. Williams, a research scientist at CII, said in a statement. Mice that weighed more tended to carry more viruses.
According to The Washington Post, these include "Clostridium difficile, which causes severe diarrhea in humans; Salmonella enterica, responsible for bacterial food poisoning; Klebsiella pneumoniae, which can cause pneumonia or bloodstream infections; and the toxic and invasive type of Escherichia coli".
"If you've got mice in your kitchen, and they're soiling your food, that's a way in which you can become infected", Lipkin told the NY newspaper.
Scientists have found that living with mice can be unsafe for humans because of the bacteria that they carry.
The new study, which took place in NY, follows an investigation in London previous year which revealed the Tube network was a "hotbed" of drug-resistant superbugs, carried rodents.
In 2014, Australia introduced a dual-antibiotic treatment for gonorrhoea, comprised of ceftriaxone and azithromycin, to combat a strain resistant to ceftriaxone alone.
Researchers emphasized that more study is needed before they could definitively say that serious and antibiotic-resistant infections could be passed from mice to people.
And some of the bacteria showed signs they could be resistant to treatment by antibiotics.
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"It's getting harder to treat illnesses with effective antibiotics".
It's not clear exactly how the mice are picking up the disease-causing bacteria, or the antibiotic resistant ones.
Lipkin stresses that the researchers haven't actually linked mice to any large outbreaks of human disease. "If your food is contaminated with mouse droppings, you shouldn't eat it". "But nonetheless, these are interesting and important studies".
And they probably resembled their cousins in other urban megacenters, too, Lipkin said. The risk to humans is thought to be greatest during floods - like those caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago - because the rodents' urine gets washed into the flood waters.
Estimates of New York City's rat population range from 250,000 to millions.
Researchers in Vancouver previously discovered Leptospira in rats in the Downtown Eastside, but they didn't observe a link to disease in humans. "One would really have to do the same experiments in the city and in the countryside to have a direct comparison", said Baines, who, for his own most recent research, "laid traps in and around farms" to find sick mice in the wild. "Obviously it gets wet here but people aren't wading through flood waters".
Just because certain bacteria are present does not suggest they are going to be pathogenic - meaning they can first infiltrate our systems and then cause disease, said Timothy Walsh, an expert on antimicrobial resistance at Cardiff University, who was not involved with the study.
"Everything that moves" could be carrying such bacteria, he said, so it depends on the likelihood of exposure.
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