Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but not with biodiversity

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2017-06-05

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2016.0122PMID 28438911PMCID PMC5413870
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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