The risk of disease to great apes: Simulating disease spread in orang-utan (pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) and chimpanzee (pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) association networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Carne, Charlotte ^a   Semple, Stuart ^a   Morrogh Bernard, Helen ^b,c   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^d,e   Lehmann, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALANGKA RAYA   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; INDONESIA; INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PREDICTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOCIAL BONDING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; UGANDA; ANIMAL; APE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PAN TROGLODYTES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMICS; INDONESIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UGANDA;

EID: 84899767574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095039     Document Type: Article

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