Ecological disturbances and emerging infections: Travel, dams, shipment of goods, and vectors

Emerging Neurological Infections

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 35-58

  Wilson, Mary Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

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