Is infectious disease just another type of predator-prey interaction?

Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 223-241

  Hall, Spencer R ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^b   Brown, James H ^j   Cáceres, Carla E ^c   Chase, Jonathan M ^d   Dobson, Andrew P ^e   Holt, Robert D ^f   Jones, Clive G ^g   Randolph, Sarah E ^h   Rohani, Pejman ⁱ  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^g CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^j NONE

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