Infectious diseases and their outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and its regulation loss matter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Morand, Serge ^a,b,c   Jittapalapong, Sathaporn ^d,e   Suputtamongkol, Yupin ^f   Abdullah, Mohd Tajuddin ^g   Huan, Tan Boon ^h  

^a UMR ASTRE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e Center of Excellence on Agricultural Biotechnology AG BIO PERDO CHE (PERDO 2555 01)   (Thailand)

^f MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMIC; FOREST; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRECIPITATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE; ZOONOSIS;

ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84896128417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090032     Document Type: Article

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