Climate extremes promote fatal co-infections during canine distemper epidemics in African lions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Munson, Linda ^a   Terio, Karen A ^b   Kock, Richard ^c   Mlengeya, Titus ^d   Roelke, Melody E ^d,e   Dubovi, Edward ^f   Summers, Brian ^f   Sinclair, Anthony R E ^g   Packer, Craig ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Zoological Pathology Program   (United States)

^c African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources   (Kenya)

^d Tanzania National Parks   (Tanzania)

^e SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^f Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BLOOD PARASITE; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; HERBIVORE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; LION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; DOG DISEASE;

BABESIA; CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; IXODIDA; SYNCERUS CAFFER; SYNCERUS CAFFER CAFFER;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DISTEMPER; LIONS;

EID: 49649096842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002545     Document Type: Article

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