Hantaviruses are enzootic viruses that maintain persistent infections in their rodent hosts
without apparent disease symptoms. The spillover of these viruses to humans can lead to …

Males of many species are more susceptible than females to infections caused by parasites,
fungi, bacteria, and viruses. One proximate cause of sex differences in infection is …

Hantaviruses are carried by numerous rodent species throughout the world. In 1993, a
previously unknown group of hantaviruses emerged in the United States as the cause of an …

1. Heterogeneity in the ability of hosts to transmit pathogens is among the most fundamental
concepts in disease dynamics and has major implications for disease control strategies. 2 …

Zoonotic diseases, caused by pathogens transmitted to people from vertebrate reservoirs,
take an enormous toll on human health worldwide. Many of these disease agents are …

Within the past few years, the number of" new" human diseases associated with small-
mammal reservoirs has increased dramatically, stimulating renewed interest in reservoir …

Hantaviruses have the potential to cause two different types of diseases in human:
hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) …

Background China is a country that is most seriously affected by hemorrhagic fever with
renal syndrome (HFRS) with 90% of HFRS cases reported globally. At present, HFRS is …

Hantaviruses include serious human pathogens that are maintained in nature in persistently
infected rodents and that can also persistently infect cultured mammalian cells, causing little …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1449–1458 Abstract Trade‐offs between behavioural traits
promoting high life‐history productivity and mortality may fuel the evolution of animal …