Antigenic diversity, transmission mechanisms, and the evolution of pathogens

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Lange, Alexander ^a,b   Ferguson, Neil M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS;

ANTIGENICS; CONTACT NETWORKS; CROSS-IMMUNITY; DIVERSITY TRANSMISSION; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; HOST MODELS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; RESOURCE DEPLETION; TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS; TRANSMISSION MODEL;

PATHOGENS;

ANTIGEN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BIODIVERSITY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEPLETION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYNAMICS; EVOLUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASLES; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION; RUBELLA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS LOAD; ALGORITHM; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUTATION; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 73349098458     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000536     Document Type: Article

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