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Science Advances is the offspring of Science, created by the opportunities and imperatives of digital, open access publishing.
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Displaying 1 - 1 of 1Deforestation-driven food-web collapse linked to emerging tropical infectious disease, Mycobacterium ulcerans
Generalist microorganisms are the agents of many emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), but their natural life cycles are difficult to predict due to the multiplicity of potential hosts and environmental reservoirs. Among 250 known human EIDs, many have been traced to tropical rain forests and specifically freshwater aquatic systems, which act as an interface between microbe-rich sediments or substrates and terrestrial habitats.