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Maintenance of Borrelia burgdorferi among vertebrate hosts: a test of dilution effect mechanisms

2020-02-01

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Abstract A better understanding of the mechanisms through which host diversity can influence reservoir pathogen infection is needed to mitigate disease risk. Efforts may involve computational modeling, especially since it is infeasible to perform large‐scale experimental studies of different host composition scenarios in natural settings. We used individual‐based models to examine how changes in host diversity cha...

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Literature Corpus work: 99a39574-750a-5665-be04-02157ea59235
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3048

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