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strain structure: a standalone construct

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Epidemiology

the self-organization of an antigenically diverse pathogen into discrete, non-overlapping strains shaped by host immune selection.

In epidemiology, strain structure refers to the self-organization of an antigenically diverse pathogen into discrete, non-overlapping strains shaped by host immune selection. This meaning comes from Gupta (1998) in Science.[1]

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References

Gupta, S., Ferguson, N., & Anderson, R. (1998). Chaos, Persistence, and Evolution of Strain Structure in Antigenically Diverse Infectious Agents. Science, 280(5365), 912-915. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.280.5365.912

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