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SUBMITTER: Valenzuela-Sanchez A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5627199 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valenzuela-Sánchez Andrés A Schmidt Benedikt R BR Uribe-Rivera David E DE Costas Francisco F Cunningham Andrew A AA Soto-Azat Claudio C
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20170901 1863
The decline of wildlife populations due to emerging infectious disease often shows a common pattern: the parasite invades a naive host population, producing epidemic disease and a population decline, sometimes with extirpation. Some susceptible host populations can survive the epidemic phase and persist with endemic parasitic infection. Understanding host-parasite dynamics leading to persistence of the system is imperative to adequately inform conservation practice. Here we combine field data, s ...[more]