Plague and climate: Scales matter

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Ari, Tamara ^a,b   Neerinckx, Simon ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^c   Kreppel, Katharina ^d   Laudisoit, Anne ^e   Leirs, Herwig ^e   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FLEA; FLEA BITE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIBERNATION; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLAGUE; REVIEW; RODENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PLAGUE; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 80053440270     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002160     Document Type: Review

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