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Converging seasonal prevalence dynamics in experimental epidemics

Lass, Sandra ; Hottinger, Jürgen W. ; Fabbro, Thomas ; Ebert, Dieter

In: BMC Ecology, 2011, vol. 11, p. 14

Background Regular seasonal changes in prevalence of infectious diseases are often observed in nature, but the mechanisms are rarely understood. Empirical tests aiming at a better understanding of seasonal prevalence patterns are not feasible for most diseases and thus are widely lacking. Here, we set out to study experimentally the seasonal prevalence in an aquatic host-parasite system. The...