Natural killer cell dependent within-host competition arises during multiple MCMV infection: consequences for viral transmission and evolution.
It is becoming increasingly clear that many diseases are the result of infection from multiple genetically distinct strains of a pathogen. Such multi-strain infections have the capacity to alter both disease and pathogen dynamics. Infection with multiple strains of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is co...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1003111&type=printable |