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for the design of control programs; in extreme cases (as dis cussed below, by Fine et al. , this volume, and elsewhere) it can happen that immunization programs, although they protect vaccinated individuals, actually increase the overall incidence of a particular disease. The possibility that many nonhuman animal populations may be regulated by parasitic infections is another topic where it may be argued that conventional disciplinary boundaries have retarded investigation. While much ecological research has been devoted to exploring the extent to which competition or predator-prey interactions may regulate natural populations or set their patterns of geographical distribution, few substan tial studies have considered the possibility that infectious diseases may serve as regulatory agents (1,8). On the other hand, the many careful epidemiological studies of the trans mission and maintenance of parasitic infections in human and other animal populations usually assume the host population density to be set by other considerations, and not dynamically engaged with the disease (see, for example, (1,2)). With all these considerations in mind, the Dahlem Workshop from which this book derives aimed to weave strands together -- testing theoretical analysis against empirical facts and patterns, and identifying outstanding problems -- in pursuit of a better un derstanding of the overall population biology of parasitic in fections. For the purpose of the workshop, the term "parasite" was de fined widely to include viruses, bacteria, protozoans, fungi, and helminths.
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Dahlem Workshop Reports Life Sciences Research Report 25 Population Biology of Infectious Diseases The goal of this Dahlem Workshop is: to evaluate what the population biology of infectious agents implies for control of disease Life Sciences Research Reports Editor: Silke Bernhard Held and published on behalf of the Stifterverband fUr die Deutsche Wissenschaft Sponsored by: Senat der Stadt Berlin Stifterverband fUr die Deutsche Wissenschaft Population Biology of Infectious Diseases R. M. Anderson and R. M. May Editors Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Population Biology of Infectious Disease Agents Berlin 1982, March 14 -19 Rapporteurs: P.EM. Fine' M.P. Hassell, B.R.Levin· K.S.Warren Program Advisory Committee: R. M. Anderson and R. M. May, Chairpersons' J. Berger J. E Cohen' K. Dietz· E G. Knox· M.S. Pereira Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1982 Copy Editors: M. Cervantes-Waldmann, K McWhirter Photographs: E.P.Thonke With 4 photos, 12 figures, and 14 tables ISBN-13: 978-3-642-68637-5 001: 10.1007/978-3-642-68635-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-68635-1 CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek: Population biology of infectious diseases: report of the Dahlem Workshop on Population Biology of Infectious Disease Agents, Berlin 1982, March 14-191 R. M. Anderson and R. M. May, ed Rapporteurs: P. E. M. Fine ... [Dahlem Konferenzen. Held and pub!, on behalf of the Stifterverb. fUr d. Dt. Wiss. Sponsored by: Senat d. Stadt Berlin; Stifterverb. fur d. Dt. Wiss.] Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer, 1982 (Life sciences research report; 25) (Dahlem workshop reports) NE: Anderson Roy M. [Hrsg.] Fine, Paul E. M. [Mitverf.]; Workshop on Population Biology of Infectious Disease Agents ; Dahlem Konferenzen; GT This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law, wherre copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to "Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort", Munchen.