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...
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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2673579?pdf=render |
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