Experimental evidence for reduced rodent diversity causing increased hantavirus prevalence.

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases have become a major global environmental problem with important public health, economic, and political consequences. The etiologic agents of most emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, and anthropogenic environmental changes that affect wildlife commu...

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Main Authors: Gerardo Suzán, Erika Marcé, J Tomasz Giermakowski, James N Mills, Gerardo Ceballos, Richard S Ostfeld, Blas Armién, Juan M Pascale, Terry L Yates
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2673579?pdf=render