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transmission breakpoint: a standalone construct

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Parasitology

a threshold in parasite or host density below which sexual helminth transmission collapses because mating chances fall.

In parasitology, transmission breakpoint refers to a threshold in parasite or host density below which sexual helminth transmission collapses because mating chances fall. This meaning comes from Macdonald (1965) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.[1]

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References

Macdonald, G. (1965). The dynamics of helminth infections, with special reference to schistosomes. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 59(5), 489-506. https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(65)90152-5

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