Dr Ewald Got Interested in Host-Pathogen Interactions as a Result

question 47

Multiple Choice

Dr. Ewald got interested in host-pathogen interactions as a result of considering what question under what circumstance?

• A) He came down with malaria while doing a field study and wondered where it came from.
• B) He had a severe case of diarrhea and wondered whether that was his body's way of getting rid of an organism, or the organism's way of infecting the next host.
• C) His mother developed Alzheimer's disease and he wondered whether it was possible that the disease resulted from a chronic, long-term infection.
• D) He was director of a program of disease evolution and he wondered whether heart disease was the result of the evolution of a chronic infection.
• E) He actually had several experiences with diseases and in every case wondered how the host evolved in the presence of that particular pathogen.

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