The Need for Evolutionarily Rational Disease Interventions: Vaccination Can Select for Higher Virulence

Mike Boots

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002236

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The Need for Evolutionarily Rational Disease Interventions: Vaccination Can Select for Higher Virulence

Mike Boots

* E-mail: m.boots@exeter.ac.uk

Affiliations Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, United Kingdom
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The Need for Evolutionarily Rational Disease Interventions: Vaccination Can Select for Higher Virulence

Mike Boots

Published: August 25, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002236

About the Authors

Mike Boots

* E-mail: m.boots@exeter.ac.uk

Affiliations Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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