Publication Date:
2015-09-05
Description:
Infectious diseases often emerge from interactions among multiple species and across nested levels of biological organization. Threats as diverse as Ebola virus, human malaria, and bat white-nose syndrome illustrate the need for a mechanistic understanding of the ecological interactions underlying emerging infections. We describe how recent advances in community ecology can be adopted to address contemporary challenges in disease research. These analytical tools can identify the factors governing complex assemblages of multiple hosts, parasites, and vectors, and reveal how processes link across scales from individual hosts to regions. They can also determine the drivers of heterogeneities among individuals, species, and regions to aid targeting of control strategies. We provide examples where these principles have enhanced disease management and illustrate how they can be further extended.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Johnson, Pieter T J -- de Roode, Jacobus C -- Fenton, Andy -- R01GM109499/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM109501/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Sep 4;349(6252):1259504. doi: 10.1126/science.1259504.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. pieter.johnson@colorado.edu. ; Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. ; Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26339035" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Biota
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Communicable Disease Control/*methods
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Communicable Diseases/*drug therapy/*epidemiology
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*Host-Parasite Interactions
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Humans
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Symbiosis
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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