| Abstrakt: |
Since the rise of modern humans, population growth, land-use change and frequent contact with wildlife and domesticated animals have created ongoing opportunities for pathogen emergence. Early transportation networks and population expansion created a world where human specific pathogens are now ubiquitous. Zoonoses, in contrast, continue to emerge as humans encroach into the last remaining wild areas, increase livestock production, and plug into vast global trade networks. Pathogens are exploiting almost any change in human ecology that provides new opportunities for transmission, the most recent being rampant use of antibiotics resulting in new multidrug-resistant pathogens. Disease biogeography can identify generalities in pathogen occurrence and help predict future disease distributions. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Volume 41 is November 2, 2010. Please see for revised estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
