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Why are there so few pathogens? Ecology and evolution in pathogen emergence

John M Drake. PLoS Biol. 2025.

Abstract

Why are there so few pathogens, and what determines their emergence? The ecological and evolutionary forces of host availability, geographic exposure, and microbial innovation will shape future human diseases.

Copyright: © 2025 John M. Drake. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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