Current theory on the epidemiology of infectious diseases in genetically heterogeneous host
populations ignores age structure. Thus, the possibility that microparasites might have …

An important aspect of microparasite biology is the fact that infections are populations of
thousands of microbes. As any population, infections are hence subject to two main types of …

It is a fundamental question in mathematical epidemiology whether deadly infectious
diseases only lead to a mere decline of their host populations or whether they can cause …

It is well known that in the most general epidemic models with multiple pathogen variants a
competitive exclusion principle is valid, such that the variant with the highest reproduction …

In host–parasite co-evolution, parasites are assumed to have an advantage owing to their
shorter generation time. Evolution of pathogens within the lifetime of a host individual is …

The host-parasite or host-pathogen system was analyzed from dynamical and evolutionary
viewpoints using simple mathematical models incorporating vertical transmission, immunity …

Many diseases show important interactions between epidemiology and immunology. Both
models and datat suggest that epidemiologically controlled variables, like frequency and …

Much of evolutionary epidemiology theory is derived from a perspective in which all hosts,
and all parasites, are epidemiologically equivalent. This stands in contrast to the well …

Theorists who make a priori generalizations about the tendency of host-parasite systems to
co-evolve toward commensalism or increased parasitism err because they do not consider …

Long term persistence of infectious diseases depends on the infection and recovery
processes within individual hosts, as well as on the vital dynamics of the host population and …