Infectious diseases and the illegal wildlife trade

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 16-19

  Gómez, Andrés ^a,c   Aguirre, A Alonso ^a,b  

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

^b ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^c MC5557 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Cross species transmission; Human health; Parasites; Smuggling; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIODIVERSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRIME; ECOSYSTEM; ECTOPARASITE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDOPARASITE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; SMUGGLING; TROPICAL MEDICINE; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIRUS DETECTION; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57849165953     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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