The Leeuwenhoek lecture 2001. Animal origins of human infectious disease

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1410, 2001, Pages 957-977

  Weiss, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BSE; Epidemics; HIV AIDS; Microbes; vCreutzfeldt Jakob disease; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

EID: 0035967960     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2001.0838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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