Immunity and immune-mediated competition

• Slides

Pathogen comparison

• Exercise: Review main immune interactions for chosen pathogens
• Question: What are the main immune selective pressures on the pathogen?

Additional resources

• Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Within-host dynamics of infection: from ecological insights to evolutionary predictions
• Cobey, S. 2014. Pathogen evolution and the immunological niche. Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences 1320:1-15.
• Lipsitch and O’Hagan. 2007. Patterns of antigenic diversity and the mechanisms that maintain them. J. R. Soc. Interface 4(16):787-802.