Linkage of Viral Sequences among HIV-Infected Village Residents in Botswana: Estimation of Linkage Rates in the Presence of Missing Data

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Carnegie, Nicole Bohme ^a   Wang, Rui ^a,b   Novitsky, Vladimir ^a   De Gruttola, Victor ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; SURVEYS;

ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT; BLOOD SAMPLES; BOTSWANA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LOW-HIGH; MISSING DATA; OBSERVED DATA; TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS; VIRAL LOAD;

PROBABILITY;

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; BOTSWANA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; BOTSWANA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HIV; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84896695377     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003430     Document Type: Article

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