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Superspreading and the evolution of virulence

2025-09-05

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Superspreading, where a small proportion of a population can cause a high proportion of infection transmission, is well known to be important to the epidemiology of a wide range of pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2. However, despite its ubiquity in important human and animal pathogens, the impact of superspreading on the evolution of pathogen virulence is not well understood. Using theory and both deterministic and...

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Literature Corpus work: 58e4e3ca-b01b-5f7e-847f-5cfb08d8a0ba
DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.03.25335001

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