Decreased Overall Virulence in Coinfected Hosts Leads to the Persistence of Virulent Parasites

Multiple infections are known to affect virulence evolution. Some studies even show that coinfections may decrease the overall virulence (the disease‐induced mortality of a coinfected host). Yet, epidemiological studies tend to overlook the overall virulence, and within‐host models tend to ignore ep...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American naturalist 2008-08, Vol.172 (2), p.E67-E79
1. Verfasser:	Alizon, Samuel
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Bacteria Biological Evolution Coinfection Comorbidity Disease models Disease transmission Evolution E‐Note Host-Pathogen Interactions Humans Infection - microbiology Infection - parasitology Infections Mathematical functions Models, Biological Parasite hosts Parasites Virulence
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