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Co-infection and super-infection models in evolutionary epidemiology
- Source :
- Interface Focus, Interface Focus, Royal Society publishing, 2013, 3, pp.20130031. ⟨10.1098/rsfs.2013.0031⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2013.
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Abstract
- Multiple infections are intensively studied because of their consequences for the health of the host but also because they can radically alter the selective pressures acting on parasites. I discuss how multiple infections have been modelled in evolutionary epidemiology. First, I briefly mention within-host models, which are at the root of these epidemiological models. Then, I present the super-infection framework, with an original focus on how the definition of the super-infection function can lead to evolutionary branching. There are several co-infection models and, for each of them, I briefly go through the underlying mathematics (especially the invasion fitness of a mutant strain) and I discuss the biological assumptions they make and the questions they consequently may ask. In particular, I show that a widely used co-infection model should not be invoked for invasion analyses because it confers a frequency-dependent advantage to rare neutral mutants. Finally, I present more recent frameworks, such as the Price equation framework in epidemiology, that can account for increased parasite diversity. To conclude, I discuss some perspectives for the study of multiple infections in evolutionary epidemiology.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
medicine.medical_specialty
Biomedical Engineering
Biophysics
review
Bioengineering
Biology
Parasite diversity
multiple infections
Super infection
computer.software_genre
[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
Biomaterials
03 medical and health sciences
Mutant strain
Epidemiology
medicine
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
model
[SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]
Trade offs
Articles
[INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation
Multiple infections
Price equation
[SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology
Evolutionary biology
Data mining
computer
Biotechnology
Co infection
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Interface Focus, Interface Focus, Royal Society publishing, 2013, 3, pp.20130031. ⟨10.1098/rsfs.2013.0031⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c1757043a29d722a094e33d2d4d43fe8