Can You Judge a Disease Host by the Company It Keeps? Predicting Disease Hosts and Their Relative Importance: A Case Study for Leishmaniasis.

• Main Authors: Christopher R Stephens (Author), Constantino González-Salazar (Author), Víctor Sánchez-Cordero (Author), Ingeborg Becker (Author), Eduardo Rebollar-Tellez (Author), Ángel Rodríguez-Moreno (Author), Miriam Berzunza-Cruz (Author), Cristina Domingo Balcells (Author), Gabriel Gutiérrez-Granados (Author), Mircea Hidalgo-Mihart (Author), Carlos N Ibarra-Cerdeña (Author), Martha Pilar Ibarra López (Author), Luis Ignacio Iñiguez Dávalos (Author), María Magdalena Ramírez Martínez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Zoonoses are an important class of infectious diseases. An important element determining the impact of a zoonosis on domestic animal and human health is host range. Although for particular zoonoses some host species have been identified, until recently there have been no methods to predict those spe...