PMC:7551987 / 5602-5944 JSONTXT

{"project":"LitCovid-sentences","denotations":[{"id":"T34","span":{"begin":108,"end":340},"obj":"Sentence"}],"namespaces":[{"prefix":"_base","uri":"http://pubannotation.org/ontology/tao.owl#"}],"text":"nce evolution is independent of transmission, then long-lived infective stages select for higher virulence. However, if there is a tradeoff between virulence and transmission, there is no evidence for the Curse of the Pharaoh hypothesis, and in fact, higher virulence may be selected for by shorter rather than long-lived infectious stages. F"}