Pathways to zoonotic spillover

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 502 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.45 Authors: Raina K. Plowright, Colin R. Parrish, Hamish McCallum, Peter J. Hudson, Albert I. Ko, Andrea L. Graham & James O. Lloyd-Smith Zoonotic spillover, which is the transmission of a pathogen from a vertebrate animal to a human, presents a global public health burden but is a poorly understood phenomenon. Zoonotic spillover requires several factors to align, including the ecological, epidemiological and behavioural determinants of pathogen exposure,
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