Host competence: An organismal trait to integrate immunology and epidemiology

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1225-1237

  Martin, Lynn B ^a   Burgan, S C ^a   Adelman, James S ^a   Gervasi, Stephanie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; ANIMALS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84982267059     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icw064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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