The fitness of drug-resistant malaria parasites in a rodent model: Multiplicity of infection

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2410-2422

  Huijben, S ^a,b   Sim, D G ^a   Nelson, W A ^c   Read, A F ^a,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Competitive release; Complexity of infection; Drug resistance; Malaria; Multiplicity of infection; Plasmodium chabaudi; Selection coefficient; Within host dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRIMETHAMINE;

CLONE; COMPLEXITY; DRUG RESISTANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALARIA; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RODENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETIC FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PYRIMETHAMINE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; RODENTIA;

EID: 80053943136     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02369.x     Document Type: Article

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