This monograph takes stock of our current knowledge on the evolutionary ecology of infectious diseases, and sets out the goals for the management of virulent pathogens. Throughout the text, the fundamental concepts and techniques underlying the models are carefully explained in a unique series of integrated boxes.
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"The volume achieves its aims of being an introductory text for researchers to expand their range of knowledge and stimulate new enquiry." Dr. Jodie McVernon, Epidemiol Infect
"Virulence management will continue to be a hot topic that will undoubtedly be subject to much refinement. This book provides an outstanding treatment of the ecological, evolutionary, and physiological richness of this active area of research. Ecologists will find it richly rewarding and stimulating, and if health professionals give it a try, they will find much to guide health policy." Ecoscience
"Virulence management will continue to be a hot topic that will undoubtedly be subject to much refinement. This book provides an outstanding treatment of the ecological, evolutionary, and physiological richness of this active area of research. Ecologists will find it richly rewarding and stimulating, and if health professionals give it a try, they will find much to guide health policy." Ecoscience
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Infectious diseases evolve with great rapidity, relentlessly threatening the health of humankind. Newly emerging diseases, a surge of antibiotic resistance, and the elusive nature of the HIV pathogen all underscore the conclusion that responsible health management must no longer ignore the continual adaptation of pathogens. Written for graduate students and researchers, this books provides a unique integration of mathematical evolutionary modeling and disease management. It explains the fundamental concepts and techniques behind the modeling tools, and presents the latest novel approaches to the evolutionary management of disease virulence.
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Toward the end of the 1960s, by dint of science and collective efforts, humankind had managed to eradicate smallpox and to land on the moon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
virulence management, intrinsic sink, evolutionary isoclines, resistant cases result, superinfection model, invasion fitness, aggressive virulence, pairwise invasibility plots, virulence evolution, adaptive dynamics theory, indirect plant defenses, mixed clone infections, singular phenotype, serotype replacement, vectorborne pathogens, basic reproduction ratio, independently transmitted strains, senescence plasmids, coinfection model, host population structure, medium virulence, stable virulence, evolutionarily stable level, average virulence, matching virulence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maynard Smith, Red Queen, North American, Pathogen-Host Coerolution, Taking Stock, Insect Virus, Managing Antibiotic Resistance, Adaptive Dynamics of Pathogen-Host Interactions, Relating Theory, Setting the Stage Box, South American, Santa Rosa, Setting the Stage Figure, South Africa, The Two Extremes, Biogeographical Perspectives, Hong Kong, Oryzica Llanos, Papua New Guinea, World Health Organization New!
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Toward the end of the 1960s, by dint of science and collective efforts, humankind had managed to eradicate smallpox and to land on the moon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
virulence management, intrinsic sink, evolutionary isoclines, resistant cases result, superinfection model, invasion fitness, aggressive virulence, pairwise invasibility plots, virulence evolution, adaptive dynamics theory, indirect plant defenses, mixed clone infections, singular phenotype, serotype replacement, vectorborne pathogens, basic reproduction ratio, independently transmitted strains, senescence plasmids, coinfection model, host population structure, medium virulence, stable virulence, evolutionarily stable level, average virulence, matching virulence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maynard Smith, Red Queen, North American, Pathogen-Host Coerolution, Taking Stock, Insect Virus, Managing Antibiotic Resistance, Adaptive Dynamics of Pathogen-Host Interactions, Relating Theory, Setting the Stage Box, South American, Santa Rosa, Setting the Stage Figure, South Africa, The Two Extremes, Biogeographical Perspectives, Hong Kong, Oryzica Llanos, Papua New Guinea, World Health Organization New!
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- Ecology and Evolution of the Acari (Series Entomologica) by J. Bruin in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Epidemic Models: Their Structure and Relation to Data (Publications of the Newton Institute) by Denis Mollison in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations (Publications of the Newton Institute) by B. T. Grenfell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Genetics and the Extinction of Species by Laura Landweber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity (Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics) by Ulf Dieckmann in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity (Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics) by Ulf Dieckmann in Front Matter
- Ecological Communities: Plant Mediation in Indirect Interaction Webs by Takayuki Ohgushi on page 214
- Plant-Provided Food for Carnivorous Insects: A Protective Mutualism and its Applications by F. L. Wäckers on page 133
- Evolutionary Conservation Biology (Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics) by Régis Ferrière in Front Matter
- Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts, and Data Analyses (Dimacs Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science) by Zhilan Feng on page 107
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