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Approximations for the hitchhiking effect caused by the evolution of antimalarial-drug resistance.
Journal of mathematical biology - 1 Jun 2011
Schneider Kristan A, Kim Yuseob
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An analytically feasible, deterministic model for the spread of drug resistance among human malaria parasites, which incorporates all characteristics of the complex malaria-transmission cycle was introduced by Schneider and Kim (Theor. Popul Biol, 2010). The model accounts for the fact that only a fraction of infected hosts receive drug treatment and that hosts can be co-infected by differently many parasites....
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