Figure 4
From: Contrasting within- and between-host immune selection shapes Neisseria Opa repertoires
The effects of different relationships between increasing antigenic diversity and the increase in infectious period conferred.
As the infectious period advantage conferred to antigenically diverse strains decreases (moving from a to d), strain axby (light grey) is less likely to dominate the population. Even when the increase in infectious period is relatively shallow, axby can emerge at all values of R0 when cross-immunity is sufficiently low.
