Variation among strains of Borrelia burgdorferi in host tissue abundance and lifetime transmission determine the population strain structure in nature.
Pathogen life history theory assumes a positive relationship between pathogen load in host tissues and pathogen transmission. Empirical evidence for this relationship is surprisingly rare due to the difficulty of measuring transmission for many pathogens. The comparative method, where a common host...
Main Authors: | Christopher B Zinck, Prasobh Raveendram Thampy, Eva-Maria E Uhlemann, Hesham Adam, Jenny Wachter, Danae Suchan, Andrew D S Cameron, Ryan O M Rego, Dustin Brisson, Catherine Bouchard, Nicholas H Ogden, Maarten J Voordouw |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2023-08-01
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Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011572&type=printable |
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