Uncovering epidemiological dynamics in heterogeneous host populations using phylogenetic methods
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Uncovering epidemiological dynamics in heterogeneous host populations using phylogenetic methods.
Host population structure has a major influence on epidemiological dynamics. However, in particular for sexually transmitted diseases, quantitative data on population contact structure are hard to obtain. Here, we introduce a new method that quantifies host population structure based on phylogenetic trees, which are obtained from pathogen genetic sequence data. Our method is based on a maximum-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0198