[Anthropozoonoses and other inter-specific infections: breaches in the "species barrier"].

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Infectious outbreaks in human populations frequently occurred during the last decades. Most of these epidemics were emerging or re-emerging diseases and about 75% of them were caused by animal pathogens mainly from wild animal species. Thus the "species barrier" dogma seems to be frequently in the wrong. Many factors are probably involved in this failure. Among them, genetic mutations mainly in viruses which are...

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