Infectious diseases and their outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: biodiversity and its regulation loss matter.

Despite increasing control measures, numerous parasitic and infectious diseases are emerging, re-emerging or causing recurrent outbreaks particularly in Asia and the Pacific region, a hot spot of both infectious disease emergence and biodiversity at risk. We investigate how biodiversity affects the...

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Main Authors: Serge Morand, Sathaporn Jittapalapong, Yupin Suputtamongkol, Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah, Tan Boon Huan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0090032&type=printable