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Reasons for the increase in emerging and re-emerging viral infectious diseases

In the past two decades, humans have faced many new viral infectious agents in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). Many factors contribute to the appearance of EIDs. These factors are complex but can be classified into three different categories: virus factors, human factors, and ec...

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Autor principal: Ka-Wai Hui, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier SAS. 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16448839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2005.06.032
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Sumario:In the past two decades, humans have faced many new viral infectious agents in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). Many factors contribute to the appearance of EIDs. These factors are complex but can be classified into three different categories: virus factors, human factors, and ecological factors. The factors contributing to the cause of such viral infectious diseases will be systematically reviewed in this article.