The effect of habitat fragmentation and species diversity loss on hantavirus prevalence in Panama

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 80-83

  Suzán, Gerardo ^a,i   Marcé, Erika ^b   Giermakowski, J Tomasz ^b   Armién, Blas ^c   Pascale, Juan ^c   Mills, James ^d   Ceballos, Gerardo ^a   Gómez, Andres ^e   Aguirre, A Alonso ^f   Salazar Bravo, Jorge ^g   Armién, Anibal ^h   Parmenter, Robert ^b   Yates, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud   (Panama)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^g TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ University of Wisconsin Madison ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Diversity loss; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Hantavirus; Rodent diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOLOGY; FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HANTAVIRUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; RODENT; SEROPREVALENCE; SMALL MAMMAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

HANTAVIRUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 57849129573     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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