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Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

Matthew C. Fisher (), Daniel. A. Henk, Cheryl J. Briggs, John S. Brownstein, Lawrence C. Madoff, Sarah L. McCraw and Sarah J. Gurr ()
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Matthew C. Fisher: Imperial College, London W2 1PG, UK
Daniel. A. Henk: Imperial College, London W2 1PG, UK
Cheryl J. Briggs: Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California
John S. Brownstein: Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston
Lawrence C. Madoff: ProMED, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Sarah L. McCraw: University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
Sarah J. Gurr: University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK

Nature, 2012, vol. 484, issue 7393, 186-194

Abstract: Pathogenic fungi are increasingly contributing to the global emerging disease burden, threatening biodiversity and imposing increasing costs on ecosystem health, hence steps must be taken to tighten biosecurity worldwide to reduce the rate of fungal disease emergence.

Date: 2012
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