Evidence of strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum var gene repertoires in children from Gabon, West Africa [Population Biology]

Existing theory on competition for hosts between pathogen strains has proposed that immune selection can lead to the maintenance of strain structure consisting of discrete, weakly overlapping antigenic repertoires. This prediction of strain theory has conceptual overlap with fundamental ideas in ecology on niche partitioning and limiting similarity between coexisting...

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