Random, top-down, or bottom-up coexistence of parasites: Malaria population dynamics in multi-parasitic settings

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2414-2425

  Chaves, Luis Fernando ^a,f   Akira, Kaneko ^b,c,d   Mercedes, Pascual ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nets; Cross immunity; Loop analysis; Malaria time series; Parasite interactions; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Population regulation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMUNITY; IMPREGNATED BEDNET; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOAN; RESOURCE USE; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 69449100724     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1022.1     Document Type: Article

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