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Social buffering and contact transmission: network connections have beneficial and detrimental effects on Shigella infection risk among captive rhesus macaques

In social animals, group living may impact the risk of infectious disease acquisition in two ways. On the one hand, social connectedness puts individuals at greater risk or susceptibility for acquiring enteric pathogens via contact-mediated transmission. Yet conversely, in strongly bonded societies...

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Autores principales: Balasubramaniam, Krishna, Beisner, Brianne, Vandeleest, Jessica, Atwill, Edward, McCowan, Brenda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5088628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27812426
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2630