ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine1998
The evolution of virulence and emerging diseases.
Article in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Microbes and Mental Illness: Past, Present, and Future.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Virus-Encoded Complement Regulators: Current Status.Viruses · 2021Review
- The evolution of virulence of West Nile virus in a mosquito vector: implications for arbovirus adaptation and evolution.BMC evolutionary biology · 2013Article
- On the possible role of robustness in the evolution of infectious diseases.Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) · 2010Article
- Pathogen survival in the external environment and the evolution of virulence.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2004Review
- Comparative analysis of the SARS coronavirus genome: a good start to a long journey.Lancet (London, England) · 2003Article
- Interactions among strategies associated with bacterial infection: pathogenicity, epidemicity, and antibiotic resistance.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2002Review
- Changing patterns of West Nile virus transmission: altered vector competence and host susceptibility.Veterinary researchReview
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Abstract
Insights into the evolution of virulence may aid efforts to control or even prevent emerging diseases. Specifically, dangerous pathogens can be distinguished from those that pose relatively little threat by identifying characteristics that favor intense exploitation of hosts by pathogens, hence causing high virulence. Studies to date have implicated several such characteristics, including transmission by vectors, attendants, water, and durable propagules. These insights may improve the return on investments in disease control by directing effort and resources to the most-dangerous emerging pathogens. The approach also should help us to identify those control measures that will guard against the future emergence of dangerous pathogens, even those that have not yet been identified.
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