Virulence in malaria: an evolutionary viewpoint.
Malaria parasites cause much morbidity and mortality to their human hosts. From our evolutionary perspective, this is because virulence is positively associated with parasite transmission rate. Natural selection therefore drives virulence upwards, but only to the point where the cost to transmission...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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