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Limiting Damage during Infection: Lessons from Infection Tolerance for Novel Therapeutics

In the field of infectious disease control, novel therapies are focusing on reducing illness caused by pathogens rather than on reducing the pathogen burden itself. Here, Vale and colleagues highlight some potential consequences of such therapeutics for pathogen spread and evolution.

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Autores principales: Vale, Pedro F., Fenton, Andy, Brown, Sam P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001769
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spelling pubmed-38973602014-01-24 Limiting Damage during Infection: Lessons from Infection Tolerance for Novel Therapeutics Vale, Pedro F. Fenton, Andy Brown, Sam P. PLoS Biol Essay In the field of infectious disease control, novel therapies are focusing on reducing illness caused by pathogens rather than on reducing the pathogen burden itself. Here, Vale and colleagues highlight some potential consequences of such therapeutics for pathogen spread and evolution. Public Library of Science 2014-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3897360/ /pubmed/24465177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001769 Text en © 2014 Vale et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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