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SUBMITTER: Longdon B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4361674 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Longdon Ben B Hadfield Jarrod D JD Day Jonathan P JP Smith Sophia C L SC McGonigle John E JE Cogni Rodrigo R Cao Chuan C Jiggins Francis M FM
PLoS pathogens 20150316 3
Emerging infectious diseases are often the result of a host shift, where the pathogen originates from a different host species. Virulence--the harm a pathogen does to its host-can be extremely high following a host shift (for example Ebola, HIV, and SARs), while other host shifts may go undetected as they cause few symptoms in the new host. Here we examine how virulence varies across host species by carrying out a large cross infection experiment using 48 species of Drosophilidae and an RNA viru ...[more]