Molecular Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Survival Analysis and Algorithms Linking Phylogenies to Transmission Trees

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Kenah, Eben ^a,b   Britton, Tom ^c   Halloran, M Elizabeth ^b,d   Longini, Ira M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORESTRY; HAZARDS; VIRUSES;

ANALYSIS FRAMEWORKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY; GENOME SEQUENCE DATA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARTIAL INFORMATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS; TRANSMISSION TREES; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HAZARD RATIO; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURVIVAL; TRANSMISSION TREE; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MARKOV CHAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84964780762     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004869     Document Type: Article

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