| measles metapopulation dynamics: a gravity model for epidemiological coupling and dynamics. | infectious diseases provide a particularly clear illustration of the spatiotemporal underpinnings of consumer-resource dynamics. the paradigm is provided by extremely contagious, acute, immunizing childhood infections. partially synchronized, unstable oscillations are punctuated by local extinctions. this, in turn, can result in spatial differentiation in the timing of epidemics and, depending on the nature of spatial contagion, may result in traveling waves. measles epidemics are one of a few s ... | 2004 | 15278849 |
| morbillivirus infection in two common porpoises (phocoena phocoena) from the coasts of england and scotland. | two common porpoises (phocoena phocoena), one found stranded on the isle of sheppey, kent, and the other in the moray firth, scotland, in late 1990, were examined post mortem. lesions of diffuse bronchointerstitial pneumonia were present in both animals; they were characterised by the infiltration of alveoli with leucocytes, macrophages and multinucleate syncytia, the necrosis of bronchial and bronchiolar epithelium, focal proliferation of type ii pneumocytes and occasional acidophilic cytoplasm ... | 1992 | 1441126 |