Ecology drives the worldwide distribution of human diseases

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Guernier, Vanina ^a,b   Hochberg, Michael E ^c,d   Guégan, Jean François ^a  

^a Genet Evol Maladies Infectieuses   (France)

^b U Expertise Spatialisation C E   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION; LATITUDE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 16644384984     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020141     Document Type: Article

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