Evolutionary analysis of the dynamics of viral infectious disease

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 540-550

  Pybus, Oliver G ^a   Rambaut, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANTIGENICITY; DENGUE; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; MENINGITIS; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARS CORONAVIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; RNA VIRUSES; VIRUS DISEASES;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 67651100815     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2583     Document Type: Review

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