Natural history museums and the specimen collections they curate are vital scientific
infrastructure, a fact as true today as it was when biologists began collecting and preserving …

Infectious diseases emerge via many routes and may need to overcome stepwise
bottlenecks to burgeon into epidemics and pandemics. About 60% of human infections have …

Land-use change has a direct impact on species survival and reproduction, altering their
spatio-temporal distributions. It acts as a selective force that favours the abundance and …

Abstract Models of host-microbe dynamics typically assume a single-host population
infected by a single pathogen. In reality, many hosts form multi-species aggregations and …

Twenty years have passed since the emergence of hantavirus zoonosis in Panama at the
beginning of this millennium. We provide an overview of epidemiological surveillance of …

The Hantaan orthohantavirus (genovariant Amur–AMRV) is a rodent-borne zoonotic virus; it
is the causative agent of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in humans. The currently …

In the Americas, infectious viral diseases caused by viruses of the genus Mammarenavirus
have been reported since the 1960s. Such diseases have commonly been associated with …

Research directed at select prototype pathogens is part of the approach put forth by the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to prepare for future pandemics …

Background: With the current climate change crisis and its influence on infectious disease
transmission there is an increased desire to understand its impact on infectious diseases …

The Costa Rican pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys costaricensis) is the primary reservoir of
Choclo orthohantavirus (CHOV), the causal agent of hantavirus disease, pulmonary …