Immunopathology (immune-mediated pathology) is a ubiquitous cause of disease during
infection, but how will parasite exploitation strategies evolve in its presence …

The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 virulence, or lethality, threatens to exacerbate the burden of
COVID-19 on society. How might COVID-19 vaccines alter selection for increased SARS …

Many pathogens and parasites are transmitted through hosts that differ in species, sex,
genotype, or immune status. In addition, virulence (here defined as disease-induced …

Infection intensity can dictate disease outcomes but is typically ignored when modeling
infection dynamics of microparasites (eg, bacteria, virus, and fungi). However, for a number …

COVID-19 infections have underlined that there can be substantial impacts on health after
recovery, including elevated mortality. While such post-infection mortality (PIM) is clearly …

The host–pathogen interaction drives infectious disease dynamics at the individual,
population and community levels. Here I present and analyze a model of the vertebrate …

In this paper we derive from first principles the expected body sizes of the parasite
communities that can coexist in a mammal of given body size. We use a mixture of …

A major challenge in evolutionary ecology is to explain extensive natural variation in
transmission rates and virulence across pathogens. Host and pathogen ecology is a …

Evolutionary expectations about the virulence of parasites (ie, the parasite-induced mortality
rate of the host) generally describe parasites which grow and are transmitted at the same …

This study reconstructs the paleoepidemiology of zoonoses and other infectious diseases in
Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Iron …