Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
Diseases often pile on, coinfecting people, animals and other organisms that are already fighting an infection. In one of the first studies of its kind, bioscientists from Rice University and the University of Michigan have shown that interactions between pathogens in individual hosts can predict the severity of multipathogen epidemics.