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Virulence evolution in response to vaccination: The case of malaria

One theory of why some pathogens are virulent (i.e., they damage their host) is that they need to extract resources from their host in order to compete for transmission to new hosts, and this resource extraction can damage the host. Here we describe our studies in malaria that test and support this...

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Autores principales: Mackinnon, M.J., Gandon, S., Read, A.F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18773536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.04.012