Contrasting the epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of influenza spatial transmission

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1614, 2013, Pages

  Viboud, Cécile ^a   Nelson, Martha I ^a   Tan, Yi ^a   Holmes, Edward C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human mobility; Influenza; Phylogeography; Source population; Spatial diffusion; Viral persistence

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFLUENZA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PERSISTENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; VIRUS;

BAYES THEOREM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SEASON; VIROLOGY;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEASONS;

EID: 84940260736     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0199     Document Type: Review

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