Origins of major human infectious diseases

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7142, 2007, Pages 279-283

  Wolfe, Nathan D ^a   Dunavan, Claire Panosian ^b   Diamond, Jared ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; BIOMONITORING; DOMESTIC SPECIES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PRIMATE; WARNING SYSTEM; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL HUNTING; APE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RODENT; TROPICAL DISEASE; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 34249089649     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05775     Document Type: Review

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