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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2020

Modeling Competitive Mixtures With the Lotka-Volterra Framework for More Complex Fitness Assessment Between Strains.

Afonso Dimas Martins, Erida Gjini

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Afonso Dimas MartinsMathematical Modeling of Biological Processes Laboratory, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.
Erida GjiniMathematical Modeling of Biological Processes Laboratory, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.

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Abstract

With increasing resolution of microbial diversity at the genomic level, experimental and modeling frameworks that translate such diversity into phenotypes are highly needed. This is particularly important when comparing drug-resistant with drug-sensitive pathogen strains, when anticipating epidemiological implications of microbial diversity, and when designing control measures. Classical approaches quantify differences between microbial strains using the exponential growth model, and typically report a selection coefficient for the relative fitness differential between two strains. The apparent simplicity of such approaches comes with the costs of limiting the range of biological scenarios that can be captured, and biases strain fitness estimates to polarized extremes of competitive exclusion. Here, we propose a mathematical and statistical framework based on the Lotka-Volterra model, that can capture frequency-dependent competition between microbial strains within-host and upon transmission. As a

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bottleneck sizecoinfectioncompetitive mixturefrequency dependenceinfluenzamicrobial interactionsmultiple strainsrelative transmission fitness

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