The evolution of virulence in pathogens with vertical and horizontal transmission

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1729-1741

  Lipsitch, Marc ^a,b   Siller, Steven ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; horizontal transmission; parasite; pathogen; pathogenicity; vertical transmission; virulence

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; PARASITE; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0029659310     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03560.x     Document Type: Article

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