Humans and evolutionary and ecological forces shaped the phylogeography of recently emerged diseases

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 813-821

  Keim, Paul S ^a,b   Wagner, David M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EPIDEMIC; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLAGUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TULAREMIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; TULAREMIA; WORLD HEALTH; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 70350185397     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2219     Document Type: Review

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