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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 361-371Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2336
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- European Union [GOCE-2003-010,284 EDEN]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/B/00646] Funding Source: researchfish
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The impact of human activities on the principles and processes governing the arrival, establishment and spread of exotic pathogens is illustrated by vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya, West Nile, bluetongue and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fevers. Competent vectors, which are commonly already present in the areas, provide opportunities for infection by exotic pathogens that are introduced by travel and trade. At the same time, the correct combination of environmental conditions (both abiotic and biotic) makes many far-flung parts of the world latently and predictably, but differentially, permissive to persistent transmission cycles. Socioeconomic factors and nutritional status determine human exposure to disease and resistance to infection, respectively, so that disease incidence can vary independently of biological cycles.
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