A two-tiered model for simulating the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of rapidly evolving viruses, with an application to influenza

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 1257-1274

  Koelle, Katia ^a,b   Khatri, Priya ^a   Kamradt, Meredith ^a   Kepler, Thomas B ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease dynamics; Influenza; Multi strain model; Phylodynamics; Viral evolution

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; VIRUSES;

DISEASE DYNAMICS; INFLUENZA; MULTI-STRAIN MODEL; PHYLODYNAMICS; VIRAL EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HORSE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N8; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 77956596198     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0007     Document Type: Review

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