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Infectious disease management must be evolutionary

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Increasingly, the pathogens that pose the greatest threats to humans are those that evolve to escape prior immunity and pharmaceutical interventions. In response, we need to employ evolutionary thinking to manage infectious disease.

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  1. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK

    Colin A. Russell

  2. Laboratory of Applied Evolutionary Biology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, The Netherlands

    Colin A. Russell

  3. Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, The Netherlands

    Menno D. de Jong

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Russell, C.A., de Jong, M.D. Infectious disease management must be evolutionary. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 1053–1055 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0265-9

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