During the past 10 years, multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae have
become a substantial challenge to infection control. It has been suggested by clinicians that …

A number of tick-borne diseases of humans have increased in incidence and geographic
range over the past few decades, and there is concern that they will pose an even greater …

Purpose This study aims to understand how spatial structures, the interconnections between
counties, matter in understanding the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) period …

Objectives Our objective is to better understand landscape and livelihood factors influencing
human-NHP contact in rural communities whose landscapes undergo deforestation. We …

This sixth edition of A Dictionary of Epidemiology--the most updated since its inception--
reflects the profound substantive and methodological changes that have come to …

They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

Purpose The recently introduced concept of 'landscape services'—ecosystem services
influenced by landscape patterns—may be particularly useful in landscape planning by …

Urbanization is intensifying worldwide, with two-thirds of the human population expected to
reside in cities within 30 years. The role of cities in human infectious disease is well …

Body condition metrics are widely used to infer animal health and to assess costs of parasite
infection. Since parasites harm their hosts, ecologists might expect negative relationships …

Infectious diseases are a threat to human health and a hindrance to societal development.
Consequently, the spread of diseases in both time and space has been widely studied …