Quantifying Transmission Investment in Malaria Parasites

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

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

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES;

INFECTION DYNAMICS; LIFE STAGES; MALARIA PARASITE; MEDICAL INTERVENTION; NEW HOSTS; PARASITE POPULATION; PARASITE-; TIME-SCALES; TRANSMISSION INVESTMENTS; TRANSMISSION STRATEGIES;

INVESTMENTS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION INVESTMENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

EID: 84959506903     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004718     Document Type: Article

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