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SUBMITTER: Sofonea MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4528501 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sofonea Mircea T MT Alizon Samuel S Michalakis Yannis Y
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20150801 1675
Many hosts are infected by several parasite genotypes at a time. In these co-infected hosts, parasites can interact in various ways thus creating diverse within-host dynamics, making it difficult to predict the expression and the evolution of virulence. Moreover, multiple infections generate a combinatorial diversity of cotransmission routes at the host population level, which complicates the epidemiology and may lead to non-trivial outcomes. We introduce a new model for multiple infections, whi ...[more]