Disease invasion: Impacts on biodiversity and human health

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1604, 2012, Pages 2804-2806

  Cunningham, Andrew A ^a   Dobson, Andrew P ^b   Hudson, Peter J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease emergence; Disease invasion; Emerging infectious disease spillover; Host pathogen dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NATURE CONSERVATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84866073376     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0331     Document Type: Article

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