Article
An analytical model for genetic hitchhiking in the evolution of antimalarial drug resistance.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Sept 2010
Schneider Kristan A, Kim Yuseob
Abstract excerpt
We analytically study a deterministic model for the spread of drug resistance among human malaria parasites. The model incorporates all major characteristics of the complex malaria transmission cycle and accounts for the fact that only a fraction alpha of infected hosts receive drug treatment. Furthermore, the model incorporates that hosts can be co-infected. The number m of parasites co-infecting a host is...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Anopheles
- Antimalarials
- Drug Resistance
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Insect Vectors
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Models, Genetic
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Selection, Genetic
