Synchrony in malaria infections: How intensifying within-host competition can be adaptive

American Naturalist

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Greischar, Megan A ^a   Read, Andrew F ^a,b   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Interference competition; Jensen's inequality; Malaria; Saturating immunity; Synchrony; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; IMMUNITY; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROTOZOAN; SYNCHRONY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

EID: 84892974626     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674357     Document Type: Article

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