Tracking Resilience to Infections by Mapping Disease Space.

Infected hosts differ in their responses to pathogens; some hosts are resilient and recover their original health, whereas others follow a divergent path and die. To quantitate these differences, we propose mapping the routes infected individuals take through "disease space." We find that...

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Main Authors: Brenda Y Torres, Jose Henrique M Oliveira, Ann Thomas Tate, Poonam Rath, Katherine Cumnock, David S Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-04-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4835107?pdf=render