The disease triangle: Pathogens, the environment and society

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 152-156

  Scholthof, Karen Beth G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; HERBICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BLIGHT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUNGER; INCIDENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLASMODIUM; POTATO; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALARIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; PLASMODIUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARVATION;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 33846476673     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1596     Document Type: Article

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