Publication Date:
2012-04-14
Description:
The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an unprecedented number of fungal and fungal-like diseases have recently caused some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species, and are jeopardizing food security. Human activity is intensifying fungal disease dispersal by modifying natural environments and thus creating new opportunities for evolution. We argue that nascent fungal infections will cause increasing attrition of biodiversity, with wider implications for human and ecosystem health, unless steps are taken to tighten biosecurity worldwide.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821985/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821985/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fisher, Matthew C -- Henk, Daniel A -- Briggs, Cheryl J -- Brownstein, John S -- Madoff, Lawrence C -- McCraw, Sarah L -- Gurr, Sarah J -- 5R01LM010812-02/LM/NLM NIH HHS/ -- R01 LM010812/LM/NLM NIH HHS/ -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2012 Apr 11;484(7393):186-94. doi: 10.1038/nature10947.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London W2 1PG, UK. matthew.fisher@imperial.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22498624" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging/epidemiology/*microbiology/veterinary
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*Ecosystem
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Extinction, Biological
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Food Supply
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Fungi/classification/genetics/isolation & purification/*pathogenicity
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Humans
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Mycoses/*epidemiology/microbiology/*veterinary
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Plants/*microbiology
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Virulence/genetics
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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