Centrality in primate-parasite networks reveals the potential for the transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7738-7741

  Gómez, José María ^a   Nunn, Charles L ^b   Verdú, Miguel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological networks; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMATES;

EID: 84877338959     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220716110     Document Type: Article

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