Population structure of pathogens: The role of immune selection

Parasitology Today

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 497-501

  Gupta, S ^a   Anderson, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0033485875     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(99)01559-8     Document Type: Review

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