The maintenance of strain structure in populations of recombining infectious agents

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 437-442

  Gupta, Sunetra ^a   Maiden, Martin C J ^b   Feavers, Ian M ^b   Nee, Sean ^a   May, Robert M ^a   Anderson, Roy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

GENES, DOMINANT; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PORINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0029894768     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0496-437     Document Type: Article

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