Social buffering and contact transmission: network connections have beneficial and detrimental effects on Shigella infection risk among captive rhesus macaques

In social animals, group living may impact the risk of infectious disease acquisition in two ways. On the one hand, social connectedness puts individuals at greater risk or susceptibility for acquiring enteric pathogens via contact-mediated transmission. Yet conversely, in strongly bonded societies...

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Published in:PeerJ
Main Authors: Balasubramaniam, Krishna, Beisner, Brianne, Vandeleest, Jessica, Atwill, Edward, McCowan, Brenda
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016
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Animal Behavior
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5088628/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27812426
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2630
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