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Effectiveness analysis of resistance and tolerance to infection.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 1 Mar 2011
Detilleux Johann C
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BACKGROUND: Tolerance and resistance provide animals with two distinct strategies to fight infectious pathogens and may exhibit different evolutionary dynamics. However, few studies have investigated these mechanisms in the case of animal diseases under commercial constraints. METHODS: The paper proposes a method to simultaneously describe (1) the dynamics of transmission of a contagious pathogen between animals,...
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