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Exposing the diversity of multiple infection patterns.
Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Apr 2017
Sofonea Mircea T, Alizon Samuel, Michalakis Yannis
Abstract excerpt
Natural populations often have to cope with genetically distinct parasites that can coexist, or not, within the same hosts. Theoretical models addressing the evolution of virulence have considered two within host infection outcomes, namely superinfection and coinfection. The field somehow became limited by this dichotomy that does not correspond to an empirical reality as other infection patterns, namely sets of...
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