Parasitic co-infections: challenges and solutions
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Parasitic co-infections: challenges and solutions.
Co-infections are the norm in nature, yet rare in the laboratory. Fortunately, the latter pattern is beginning to change, and laboratory studies comparing coand mono-infections have shown that many aspects of both parasite and host biology differ between these two settings. But, whether and how the interactions revealed in the laboratory affect natural populations is still unclear. The papers i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Parasitology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0031-1820,1469-8161
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182008000413