Comparing arenavirus infection patterns in experimentally and naturally infected rodent hosts
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Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany Pest Management Center, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
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