Host Richness Increases Tuberculosis Disease Risk in Game-Managed Areas.

ABSTRACT: Current scientific debate addresses whether species richness in animal communities may negatively moderate pathogen transmission and disease outcome (dilution effect), or to the contrary, if disease emergence benefits from more diverse community assemblages (amplification effect). The result may not depend exclusively on patterns of host species biodiversity but may depend on the specific composition of reservoir hosts and vectors, and their ecology. Host-pathogen interactions have shaped variations in parasite virulence, transmissibility and specificity. In the same way the importance of factors related to host exposure or to life history trade-offs are expected to vary. In this study, we demonstrate that ungulate host species richness correlates with increased community competence to mai

SUBMITTER: Barasona JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6617309 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature