Adaptive chronic infection, structured stress, and medical magic bullets: Do reductionist cures select for holistic diseases?

BioSystems

Volumn 77, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 93-108

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a,c   Wallace, Robert G ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c PISCS Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Chronic infection; Cognition; Immune; Interpenetration; Mutator; Phase transition; Renormalization; Virulence

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ADAPTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE;

COGNITION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REVIEW; STRESS;

EID: 7544235814     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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