Background Rabies is a notoriously underreported and neglected disease of low-income
countries. This study aims to estimate the public health and economic burden of rabies …

Rabies has been eliminated from domestic dog populations in Western Europe and North
America, but continues to kill many thousands of people throughout Africa and Asia every year…

Three metrics of species diversity – species richness, the Shannon index and the Simpson
index – are still widely used in ecology, despite decades of valid critiques leveled against …

The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a global crisis, with more than 1,430,000 confirmed
cases and more than 85,000 confirmed deaths globally as of 9 April 2020 1 , 2 , 3 – 4 . …

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epidemiological models. J. …

We provide two methods for monitoring reinfection trends in routine surveillance data to identify
signatures of changes in reinfection risk and apply these approaches to data from South …

One year into the global COVID-19 pandemic, the focus of attention has shifted to the
emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs). After nearly a year of the …

One of the values of biodiversity is that it may provide ‘biological insurance’ for services
currently rendered by domesticated species or technology. We used crop pollination as a model …

Biodiversity plays a vital role for ecosystem functioning in a changing environment. Yet
theoretical approaches that incorporate diversity into classical ecosystem theory do not provide a …

Quantifying diversity is of central importance for the study of structure, function and evolution
of microbial communities. The estimation of microbial diversity has received renewed …