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CHAPTER
8
Genetic Epidemiology of Ascaris:
Cross-transmission between
Humans and Pigs, Focal
Transmission, and Effective
Population Size
Charles D. Criscione
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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Introduction
203
Ascaris
Cross-Transmission Between Humans and Pigs
205
Landscape Genetics as a Means to Infer
Ascaris
Transmission
within a Host Population
208
Effective Population Size: Epidemiological Utility and Estimation
211
Concluding Remarks
224
References
226
INTRODUCTION
In many regards, the field of genetic epidemiology (a.k.a. molecular or
evolutionary epidemiology and here defined as the use of genetic/
molecular markers to infer some aspect of the parasite/pathogen's
