Quantifying Transmission Investment in Malaria Parasites.

Many microparasites infect new hosts with specialized life stages, requiring a subset of the parasite population to forgo proliferation and develop into transmission forms. Transmission stage production influences infectivity, host exploitation, and the impact of medical interventions like drug trea...

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Main Authors: Megan A Greischar, Nicole Mideo, Andrew F Read, Ottar N Bjørnstad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4759450?pdf=render