The individual host, a unique evolutionary island for rapidly dividing parasites: a theoretical approach.

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It is hypothesized that rapidly dividing parasites producing high parasitemias within an individual host are in different environmental settings. It is further suggested that these infrapopulations experience the drastic environmental changes of free-living forms in an island environment and, that in chronically infected animals, the environmental conditions will over time select the parasites best suited to grow...

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