Dances with worms: the ecological and evolutionary impacts of deworming on coinfecting pathogens

Parasitology

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1119-1132

  Fenton, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anthelmintic; basic reproduction number; concurrent infection; mass drug administration; Parasite interactions; Th1 Th2; trade off; treatment; virulence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; DEWORMING; EVOLUTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFESPAN; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; ANIMAL; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPLICATION; ECOLOGY; HELMINTH; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIRULENCE; VIRUS;

PROTOZOA; VERMES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COINFECTION; ECOLOGY; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIRULENCE; VIRUSES;

EID: 84879820394     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182013000590     Document Type: Article

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