Indoor residents are constantly exposed to dynamic microbiota that have significant health
effects. In addition to hand hygiene, cleaning, and disinfection, antimicrobial coatings …

Although increased disease severity driven by intensive farming practices is problematic in
food production, the role of evolutionary change in disease is not well understood in these …

Theory predicts that horizontal acquisition of symbionts by plants and animals must be
coupled to release and limited dispersal of symbionts for intergenerational persistence of …

Many pathogens reside in environmental reservoirs within which they can reproduce and
from which they can infect hosts. These facultative pathogens experience different selective …

Abstract White‐nose syndrome (WNS), affecting multiple North American bat species during
the hibernation period, is a highly pathogenic disease caused by the psychrophilic fungus …

Background Generalist bacterial pathogens, with the ability for environmental survival and
growth, often face variable conditions during their outside-host period. Abiotic factors (such …

Many socio-economically important pathogens persist and grow in the outside host
environment and opportunistically invade host individuals. The environmental growth and …

Theoretical models of environmentally transmitted diseases often assume that transmission
is a constant process, which scales linearly with pathogen dose. Here we question the …

Background Environmentally growing pathogens present an increasing threat for human
health, wildlife and food production. Treating the hosts with antibiotics or parasitic …

Leakage of medical residues into the environment can significantly impact natural
communities. For example, antibiotic contamination from agriculture and aquaculture can …