We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …

Inter-specific interactions between parasites impact on parasite intra-host dynamics, host
health, and disease management. Identifying and understanding interaction mechanisms in …

Host–parasite interactions are embedded within complex communities composed of multiple
host species and a cryptic assemblage of other parasites. To date, however, surprisingly few …

Immune defence is an incredibly complicated system, but to understand how it functions in
an ecological context is challenging. Our focus is to outline the diversity of ways to measure …

Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi, the respective causative agents of human
babesiosis and Lyme disease, are maintained in their enzootic cycles by the blacklegged …

Background Infectious diarrhea can be caused by bacteria, viruses, or protozoan organisms,
or a combination of these. The identification of co-infections in dogs is important to …

In nature, hosts are exposed to an assemblage of parasite species that collectively form a
complex community within the host. To date, however, our understanding of how within-host …

Within most free‐living species exists a cryptic community of interacting parasites. By
combining multiscale field data with manipulative experiments, we evaluated patterns of …

Invasions can impact on parasite communities through both the introduction of exotic
parasite species and effects of invading hosts on native parasite dynamics. However, our …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 606–615 Abstract There is great interest in the occurrence and
consequences of interspecific interactions among co‐infecting parasites. However, the …