It Takes a Community to Raise the Prevalence of a Zoonotic Pathogen
By definition, zoonotic pathogens are not strict host-species specialists in that they infect humans and at least one nonhuman reservoir species. The majority of zoonotic pathogens infect and are amplified by multiple vertebrate species in nature, each of which has a quantitatively different impact...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/741406 |