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Effect of biodiversity changes in disease risk: exploring disease emergence in a plant-virus system.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2012
Pagán Israel, González-Jara Pablo, Moreno-Letelier Alejandra, Rodelo-Urrego Manuel, Fraile Aurora, Piñero Daniel, García-Arenal Fernando
Abstract excerpt
The effect of biodiversity on the ability of parasites to infect their host and cause disease (i.e. disease risk) is a major question in pathology, which is central to understand the emergence of infectious diseases, and to develop strategies for their management. Two hypotheses, which can be considered as extremes of a continuum, relate biodiversity to disease risk: One states that biodiversity is positively...
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