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The Causes and Consequences of Changes in Virulence following Pathogen Host Shifts
Emerging infectious diseases are often the result of a host shift, where the pathogen originates from a different host species. Virulence—the harm a pathogen does to its host—can be extremely high following a host shift (for example Ebola, HIV, and SARs), while other host shifts may go undetected as...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25774803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004728 |