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cord-349975-quw1gyw7	Martin, Lynn B.	Extreme Competence: Keystone Hosts of Infections	2019-01-29		.txt	text/plain	5296	273	39	Most prominent among these hosts are the superspreaders, but other forms of extreme competence (EC) exist and others await discovery; each with potentially strong but distinct implications for disease emergence and spread. So as to ground our framework in familiar territory, we collected data and plotted frequency distributions of all four aspects of host competence for two different infections: malaria parasites and lung nematodes ( Figure 1 ). Data from a wild tropical avian community suggest that most infections are chronic with most individuals maintaining parasite burdens insufficient for transmission to vectors (i.e., low suitability). In panel A, a malaria (vector) superattractor has high exposure risk, but it is unknown whether such hosts tend to have high or low suitability and transmissibility and thus act as superspreaders or superdiluters. Tolerance of infection: a role for animal behavior, potential immune mechanisms, and consequences for parasite transmission	./cache/cord-349975-quw1gyw7.txt	./txt/cord-349975-quw1gyw7.txt