Population structure of pathogens: the role of immune selection.

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Published in Parasitol Today on December 01, 1999

Authors

S Gupta1, R M Anderson

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3PS. sunetra.gupta@zoology.ox.ac.uk

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