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    Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape

    Land-use change is predicted to act as a driver of zoonotic disease emergence through human exposure to novel microbial diversity, but evidence for the effects of environmental change on microbial communities ...

    J. M. Hassell, M. J. Ward, D. Muloi, J. M. Bettridge, H. Phan in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Low-coverage vaccination strategies for the conservation of endangered species

    The Ethiopian wolf Canis simensis is a specialist carnivore found only in seven isolated mountain pockets in Ethiopia, where they prey on rodent communities. They live in family packs with an intricate social org...

    D. T. Haydon, D. A. Randall, L. Matthews, D. L. Knobel, L. A. Tallents in Nature (2006)

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    Modelling vaccination strategies against foot-and-mouth disease

    Vaccination has proved a powerful defence against a range of infectious diseases of humans and animals. However, its potential to control major epidemics of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in livestock is content...

    M. J. Keeling, M. E. J. Woolhouse, R. M. May, G. Davies, B. T. Grenfell in Nature (2003)

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    Correction: Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle

    Nature 382, 779-788 (1996). In Table 2 of this Letter, the reported number of cases saved for policy 9 was erroneously given for 1996 to 2001 rather than for 1997 to 2001. The number should be 584 rather than ...

    R. M. Anderson, C. A. Donnelly, N. M. Ferguson, M. E. J. Woolhouse, C. J. Watt in Nature (1997)

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    Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle

    A comprehensive analysis of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in cattle in Great Britain assesses past, present and future patterns in the incidence of infection and disease, and allows a cr...

    R. M. Anderson, C. A. Donnelly, N. M. Ferguson, M. E. J. Woolhouse, C. J. Watt in Nature (1996)

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    Acquired immunity and epidemiology of Schistosoma haematobium

    HUMAN immune responses to schistosome infection have been characterized in detail1–5. But there has been controversy6 over the relative importance of ecological factors (variation in exposure to infection) and im...

    M. E. J. Woolhouse, P. Taylor, D. Matanhire, S. K. Chandiwana in Nature (1991)