BACKGROUND Despite ongoing advances in biomedicine, infectious diseases remain a
major threat to human health, economic sustainability, and wildlife conservation. This is in …

Ixodes ticks maintain a large and diverse array of human pathogens in the enzootic cycle,
including Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti. Despite the poor ecological fitness of B …

The human respiratory tract hosts a diverse community of cocirculating viruses that are
responsible for acute respiratory infections. This shared niche provides the opportunity for …

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Why is it that some parasites cause high levels of host damage (ie virulence) whereas others
are relatively benign? There are now numerous reviews of virulence evolution in the …

Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces sha** the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

Parasites are ubiquitous components of biological systems that have evolved in multiple
independent lineages during the history of life, resulting in a diversity of taxa greater than …

Most hosts, including humans, are simultaneously or sequentially infected with several
parasites. A key question is whether patterns of coinfection arise because infection by one …

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

Most parasites co-occur with other parasites, although the importance of such
multiparasitism has only recently been recognised. Co-infections may result when hosts are …