BIODIVERSITY & HUMAN HEALTH

References:

Key articles on biodiversity and schistosomiasis:

Cetron, M. et al. 1996. Schistosomiasis in Lake Malawi. The Lancet; 348:1274-1278.

McKaye, K., J. R. Stauffer Jr., S. M. Louda. 1986. Fish predation as a factor in the distribution of Lake Malawi gastropods. Experimental Biology; 45: 279-289.

Stauffer, Jr. J. R., M.E. Arnegard, Cetron M., J. J. Sullivan, L. A. Chitsulo, G. F. Turner, S. Chiotha, K. R. McKaye. 1997. Controlling vectors and hosts of parasitic diseases using fishes. BioScience; 47(1): 41-49.

Key articles on Taxol:

McGuire, W. P., E. K. Rowinsky, N. B. Rosenshein, F. C. Brumbine, D. S. Ettinger, D. K. Armstrong, R. C. Donehower. 1989. Taxol: a unique antineoplastic agent with significant activity in advanced ovarian epithelial neoplasms. Annals of Internal Medicine; 111: 273-279.

Nicolaou, K. C., R. K. Guy, P. Potier. 1996. Taxoids: new weapons against cancer. Scientific American; 274(6): 94-98.

Key articles on land use, vertebrate diversity, and African sleeping sickness:

Molyneux, D. H. 1997. Patterns of change in vector-borne diseases. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology; 91: 827-839.

Ostfeld, R. S., F. Keesing. 2000. The function of biodiversity in the ecology of vector-borne zoonotic diseases. Canadian Journal of Zoology; 78: 2061-2078.

Key articles on biodiversity and HIV-AIDS:

Hahn, B. H., G. M. Shaw, K. M. De Cock, P. M. Sharp. 2000. AIDS as a zoonosis: scientific and public health implications. Science; 287:607-614

Peeters, M., V. Courgnaud, B. Abela, P. Auzel et al. 2002. Risk to human health from a plethora of simian immunodeficiency viruses in primate bushmeat. Emerging Infectious Diseases; 8(5): 451-457

Santiago, M. L., C. M. Rodenburg, S. Kamenya, F. Bibollet-Rouche et al. 2002. SIVcpz in wild chimpanzees. Science; 295: 465

Formenty, P., C. Boesch, M. Wyers, C. Steiner et al. 1999. Ebola virus outbreak among wild chimpanzees living in a rainforest of Cote d’Ivoire. The Journal of Infectious Diseases; 179: S120-126

Le Guenno, B., P. Formenty, and C. Boesch. 1999. Ebola virus outbreaks in the Ivory Coast and Liberia, 1994-1995. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; 235: 77-84.

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