Author: Fisher, M.C.; Henk, D.A.; Briggs, C.J.; Brownstein, J.S.; Madoff, L.C.; McCraw, S.L.; Gurr, S.J.
Description: The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an unprecedented number of fungal and fungal-like diseases have recently caused some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species, and are jeopardizing food security. Human activity is intensifying fungal disease dispersal by modifying natural environments and thus creating new opportunities for evolution. We argue that nascent fungal infections will cause increasing attrition of biodiversity, with wider implications for human and ecosystem health, unless steps are taken to tighten biosecurity worldwide.
Subject headings: Animals; Communicable Diseases, Emerging/epidemiology/microbiology/veterinary; Ecosystem; Extinction, Biological; Food Supply; Fungi/classification/genetics/isolation & purification/pathogenicity; Humans; Mycoses/epidemiology/microbiology/veterinary; Plants/microbiology; Virulence/genetics
Publication year: 2012
Journal or book title: Nature
Volume: 484
Issue: 7393
Pages: 186-194
Find the full text : https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10947
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Type: Journal Article
Serial number: 2168