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Parasite Transmission in Social Interacting Hosts: Monogenean Epidemics in Guppies

BACKGROUND: Infection incidence increases with the average number of contacts between susceptible and infected individuals. Contact rates are normally assumed to increase linearly with host density. However, social species seek out each other at low density and saturate their contact rates at high d...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Mirelle B., Lafferty, Kevin D., van Oosterhout, Cock, Cable, Joanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21897838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022634