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Natural simian immunodeficiency virus transmission in mandrills: a family affair?
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Sept 2012
Fouchet David, Verrier Delphine, Ngoubangoye Barthélémy, Souquière Sandrine, Makuwa Maria, Kazanji Mirdad, Gonzalez Jean-Paul, Pontier Dominique
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Understanding how pathogens spread and persist in the ecosystem is critical for deciphering the epidemiology of diseases of significance for global health and the fundamental mechanisms involved in the evolution of virulence and host resistance. Combining long-term behavioural and epidemiological data collected in a naturally infected mandrill population and a Bayesian framework, the present study investigated...
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