Arbovirus infection increases with group size
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Arbovirus infection increases with group size.
Buggy Creek (BCR) virus is an arthropod-borne alphavirus that is naturally transmitted to its vertebrate host the cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) by an invertebrate vector, namely the cimicid swallow bug (Oeciacus vicarius). We examined how the prevalence of the virus varied with the group size of both its vector and host. The study was conducted in southwestern Nebraska where cliff sw...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1749