Coinfections by noninteracting pathogens are not independent and require new tests of interaction.
If pathogen species, strains, or clones do not interact, intuition suggests the proportion of coinfected hosts should be the product of the individual prevalences. Independence consequently underpins the wide range of methods for detecting pathogen interactions from cross-sectional survey data. Howe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-12-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000551 |