Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Climate change will bring major changes to the epidemiology of infectious diseases through changes in microbial and vector geographic range.Human defenses against microbial diseases rely on advanced immunity that includes innate and adaptive arms and endothermy, which creates a thermal restriction zone for many microbes.Given that microbes can adapt to higher temperatures, there is concern that global warming will select for microbes with higher heat tolerance that can defeat our endothermy defenses and bring new infectious disease.
DOI: 10.1172/jci135003
Author: Arturo Casadevall
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2997316320