The antibiotic pipeline is running dry and infectious disease remains a major threat to public
health. An efficient strategy to stay ahead of rapidly adapting pathogens should include …

The past is never dead. It's not even past William Faulkner (1951) Bacteria can acquire heritable
immunity to viral (phage) enemies by incorporating phage DNA into their own genome. …

Co-infections by multiple pathogen strains are common in the wild. Theory predicts co-infections
to have major consequences for both within- and between-host disease dynamics, but …

One of the defining features of mosquito vectors of arboviruses such as Dengue and Zika is
their ability to tolerate high levels of virus proliferation without suffering significant pathology. …

CRISPR-Cas is a form of adaptive sequence-specific immunity in microbes. This system
offers unique opportunities for the study of coevolution between bacteria and their viral …

In the field of infectious disease control, novel therapies are focusing on reducing illness
caused by pathogens rather than on reducing the pathogen burden itself. Here, Vale and …

The maintenance of genetic variation for infection‐related traits is often attributed to coevolution
between hosts and parasites, but it can also be maintained by environmental variation if …

Victims of infection are expected to suffer increasingly as parasite population growth
increases. Yet, under some conditions, faster-growing parasites do not appear to cause more …

Hosts are armed with several lines of defence in the battle against parasites: they may prevent
the establishment of infection, reduce parasite growth once infected or persevere through …

Accurate measures of parasite fitness are essential to study host–parasite evolution. Parasite
fitness depends on several traits involved in establishing infection, growth and transmission…