Pathogen priming alters host transmission potential and predictors of transmissibility in a wild songbird species

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(MG), with hosts readily reinfected with homologous or heterologous strains on short timescales. However, the extent to which reinfected hosts contribute to MG transmission has not been tested. We used three pathogen priming treatments-none, intermediate (repeated low-dose priming), or high (single high-dose priming)-to test how prior pathogen priming alters the likelihood of transmission to a cagemate during...

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