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sit-and-wait hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Microbiology

the proposal that pathogens durable in the external environment can afford high virulence since transmission does not need mobile hosts.

In microbiology, sit-and-wait hypothesis refers to the proposal that pathogens durable in the external environment can afford high virulence since transmission does not need mobile hosts. This meaning comes from Walther (2004) in Biological Reviews.[1]

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  1. Walther, B. A., & Ewald, P. W. (2004). Pathogen survival in the external environment and the evolution of virulence. Biological Reviews, 79(4), 849-869. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1464793104006475

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