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Parasite evolution and extinctions

2003-02-28

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Abstract We examine the evolution of diseases that show the frequency‐dependent transmission process that is commonly applied to sexually and vector‐transmitted infections. As is commonly found, the basic reproductive ratio ( R 0 ) of the parasite is maximized by evolution. This has important implications, as it implies that for a wide range of circumstances diseases that show frequency‐dependent transmission may...

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Literature Corpus work: acf849a8-72c9-5a06-a42e-c503730d3c9d
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00426.x

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