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Temporal trends in the discovery of human viruses

On average, more than two new species of human virus are reported every year. We constructed the cumulative species discovery curve for human viruses going back to 1901. We fitted a statistical model to these data; the shape of the curve strongly suggests that the process of virus discovery is far f...

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Autores principales: Woolhouse, Mark E.J, Howey, Richard, Gaunt, Eleanor, Reilly, Liam, Chase-Topping, Margo, Savill, Nick
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2475551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18505720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0294