Europe, the bull and the Minotaur: The biological legacy of a Neolithic love story

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2778-2788

  Brüssow, Harald ^a  

^a NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CAMEL; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; REVIEW; RODENT; SMALLPOX; TUBERCULOSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CAMELS; CATTLE; EUROPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RODENTIA; SMALLPOX; TUBERCULOSIS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; CAMELIDAE; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; HELICOBACTER; MYCOBACTERIUM; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; RODENTIA; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 70350447156     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01962.x     Document Type: Review

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