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Harbouring public good mutants within a pathogen population can increase both fitness and virulence
Existing theory, empirical, clinical and field research all predict that reducing the virulence of individuals within a pathogen population will reduce the overall virulence, rendering disease less severe. Here, we show that this seemingly successful disease management strategy can fail with devasta...
| Autores principales: | , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28029337 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.18678 |