Fine-scale Identification of the Most Likely Source of a Human Plague Infection
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چکیده
We describe an analytic approach to provide fine-scale discrimination among multiple infection source hypotheses. This approach uses mutation-rate data for rapidly evolving multiple locus variable-number tandem repeat loci in probabilistic models to identify the most likely source. We illustrate the utility of this approach using data from a North American human plague investigation.
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دوره 15 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2009