Interactions among virulence, coinfection and drug resistance in a complex life-cycle parasite

Journal of Theoretical Biology
Dashun XuZhilan Feng

Abstract

Motivated by relatively recent empirical studies on Schistosoma mansoni, we use a mathematical model to investigate the impacts of drug treatment of the definitive human host and coinfection of the intermediate snail host by multiple parasite strains on the evolution of parasites' drug resistance. Through the examination of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESS) of parasites, our study suggests that higher levels of drug treatment rates (which usually tend to promote monomorphism as the evolutionary equilibrium) favor parasite strains that have a higher level of drug resistance. Our study also shows that whether coinfection of intermediate hosts affects the levels of drug resistance at ESS points and their stability depends on the assumptions on the cost of parasites paid for drug resistance, coinfection functions and parasites' reproduction within coinfected hosts. This calls for more empirical studies on the parasite.

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