Climate extremes promote fatal co-infections during canine distemper epidemics in African lions.
Extreme climatic conditions may alter historic host-pathogen relationships and synchronize the temporal and spatial convergence of multiple infectious agents, triggering epidemics with far greater mortality than those due to single pathogens. Here we present the first data to clearly illustrate how...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18575601/?tool=EBI |