Virulence in malaria: an evolutionary viewpoint.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on June 29, 2004

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Margaret J Mackinnon1, Andrew F Read

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1: School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Scotland, UK. m.mackinnon@ed.ac.uk

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