Causes of variation in malaria infection dynamics: Insights from theory and data

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Mideo, Nicole ^a   Savill, Nicholas J ^a   Chadwick, William ^a   Schneider, Petra ^a   Read, Andrew F ^b,c   Day, Troy ^d   Reece, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Life history; Modeling; Plasmodium; Within host dynamics

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY; MALARIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROTIST; RODENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALARIA; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; VIRULENCE;

PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; RODENTIA;

EID: 81355153376     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662670     Document Type: Article

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