Parasite quantity and quality are uncoupled determinants of transmission heterogeneity.

Authors

Clayton E Cressler

Published in

Trends in parasitology. Oct 28, 2026. Epub Oct 28, 2026.

Abstract

Silva et al. deconstruct parasite transmission into stages and show that performance at any one stage is uncorrelated with performance at other stages. This has important implications for attempts to quantify super-spreading using single measures of parasite performance, especially measures focused on parasite quantity that ignore parasite quality.

PMID:
42951728
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 29 Oct 2026.

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