| Literature DB >> 21824167 |
David L Reed1, Russell W Currier, Shelley F Walton, Melissa Conrad, Steven A Sullivan, Jane M Carlton, Timothy D Read, Alberto Severini, Shaun Tyler, R Eberle, Welkin E Johnson, Guido Silvestri, Ian N Clarke, Teresa Lagergård, Sheila A Lukehart, Magnus Unemo, William M Shafer, R Palmer Beasley, Tomas Bergström, Peter Norberg, Andrew J Davison, Paul M Sharp, Beatrice H Hahn, Jonas Blomberg.
Abstract
The following series of concise summaries addresses the evolution of infectious agents in relation to sex in animals and humans from the perspective of three specific questions: (1) what have we learned about the likely origin and phylogeny, up to the establishment of the infectious agent in the genital econiche, including the relative frequency of its sexual transmission; (2) what further research is needed to provide additional knowledge on some of these evolutionary aspects; and (3) what evolutionary considerations might aid in providing novel approaches to the more practical clinical and public health issues facing us currently and in the future?Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21824167 PMCID： PMC3694397 DOI： 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06133.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci ISSN： 0077-8923 Impact factor: 5.691