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- Title
Avian Influenza (H5N1) and the Evolutionary and Social Ecology of Infectious Disease Emergence.
- Authors
Kapan, Durrell D.; Bennett, Shannon N.; Ellis, Brett N.; Fox, Jefferson; Lewis, Nancy D.; Spencer, James H.; Saksena, Sumeet; Wilcox, Bruce A.
- Abstract
The article examines epidemiological, evolutionary, social and ecologic perspectives into an integrative assessment of the factors influencing infectious disease emergence. The infectious disease emergence has been attributed alternately to changes in ecological conditions affecting transmission dynamics with or without accompanying adaptive evolution in, say, host specificity, of the pathogen. A four-step approach to risk assessment suggested include hazard identification, exposure assessment, dose-response analysis and risk characterization.
- Subjects
COMMUNICABLE diseases; ECOLOGY; PATHOGENIC microorganisms; RISK assessment; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTION
- Publication
EcoHealth, 2006, Vol 3, Issue 3, p187
- ISSN
1612-9202
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10393-006-0044-6