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virulence-transmission trade-off: a standalone construct

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the hypothesis that pathogen virulence evolves to an intermediate level because harming the host also limits transmission.

In virology, virulence-transmission trade-off refers to the hypothesis that pathogen virulence evolves to an intermediate level because harming the host also limits transmission. This meaning comes from Alizon (2009) in Journal of Evolutionary Biology.[1]

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  1. Alizon, S., Hurford, A., Mideo, N., & VAN Baalen, M. (2009). Virulence evolution and the trade‐off hypothesis: history, current state of affairs and the future. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22(2), 245-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01658.x

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