Yet, how pathogen community structure shapes the dynamics of infectious diseases remains poorly understood. At the population level, investigating polymicrobial dynamics, with potential underlying competitive or cooperative interactions, is challenging, because of confounding factors such as differing seasonality.
Yet, how pathogen community structure shapes the dynamics of infectious diseases remains poorly understood.
At the population level, investigating polymicrobial dynamics, with potential underlying competitive or cooperative interactions, is challenging, because of confounding factors such as differing seasonality.
This is particularly true for endemic pathogens which typically exhibit stable periodic dynamics.
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Yet, how pathogen community structure shapes the dynamics of infectious diseases remains poorly understood. At the population level, investigating polymicrobial dynamics, with potential underlying competitive or cooperative interactions, is challenging, because of confounding factors such as differing seasonality. This is particularly true for endemic pathogens which typically exhibit stable periodic dynamics.
Their disruption due to the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic thus represents a unique large-scale natural experiment that can be leveraged to provide valuable insights into the complex interplay between respiratory pathogens.
Grenfell Many respiratory pathogens co-circulate within human populations.
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