Tracing personalized health curves during infections.

It is difficult to describe host-microbe interactions in a manner that deals well with both pathogens and mutualists. Perhaps a way can be found using an ecological definition of tolerance, where tolerance is defined as the dose response curve of health versus parasite load. To plot tolerance, indiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David S Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-09-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3176750?pdf=render