Infectious diseases have for centuries ranked with wars and famine as major challenges to
human progress and survival. They remain among the leading causes of death and …

Most of the terminology used to define the host-microbe interaction has been in use for
nearly a century. Early in this period, microbes were thought to be primary aggressors that …

The late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of numerous infectious diseases that
are caused by microorganisms that rarely cause disease in normal, healthy …

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, and their determinants, have recently
attracted substantial scientific and popular attention. HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory …

Recent studies have provided evolutionary explanations for much of the variation in mortality
among human infectious diseases. One gap in this knowledge concerns respiratory tract …

Anthropogenic impacts increasingly drive ecological and evolutionary processes at many
spatio‐temporal scales, demanding greater capacity to predict and manage their …

The need to prevent and cure emerging diseases often precludes their continuing study in
situ. We present studies on the process of disease emergence by host shifts using the model …

The ability to forecast invasion of harmful and beneficial organisms is becoming increasingly
important in agricultural and horticultural production systems as well as in natural plant …

Ixodes ricinus, as vector, and small mammals, as reservoirs, are implicated in pathogen
transmission between wild fauna, domestic animals and humans at the woodland–pasture …

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