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The infection rate of Daphnia magna by Pasteuria ramosa conforms with the mass-action principle.

In simple epidemiological models that describe the interaction between hosts with their parasites, the infection process is commonly assumed to be governed by the law of mass action, i.e. it is assumed that the infection rate depends linearly on the densities of the host and the parasite. The mass-a...

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Main Authors: Regoes, R. R., Hottinger, J. W., Sygnarski, L., Ebert, D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Cambridge University Press 2003
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870041/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14596538
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