Evolution and ecology of zoonotic wildlife pathogens. University of Antwerp
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Czech Academy of Sciences, Université de Montpellier, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Robert Koch Institute, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO)
In this network we bring together scientists studying various aspects of the evolution and ecology of viruses occurring in (African) wildlife. Among these wildlife-viruses are zoonoses: infections that naturally circulate in non-human animals and occasionally infect humans. Some of these zoonotic infections do not efficiently transmit among people, so that their appearance and that of their associated disease in humans relies mostly on the ...