Challenging the trade-off model for the evolution of virulence: Is virulence management feasible?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-20

  Ebert, Dieter ^a   Bull, James J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICISM; EXPERIMENTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYXOMA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY; VIRULENCE; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MYXOMA VIRUS; POLIOVIRUS;

EID: 0037232940     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)00003-3     Document Type: Article

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