Accurate Genetic Detection of Hepatitis C Virus Transmissions in Outbreak Settings

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 213, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 957-965

  Campo, David S ^a   Xia, Guo Liang ^a   Dimitrova, Zoya ^a   Lin, Yulin ^a   Forbi, Joseph C ^a   Ganova Raeva, Lilia ^a   Punkova, Lili ^a   Ramachandran, Sumathi ^a   Thai, Hong ^a   Skums, Pavel ^a   Sims, Seth ^a   Rytsareva, Inna ^a   Vaughan, Gilberto ^a   Roh, Ha Jung ^a   Purdy, Michael A ^a   Sue, Amanda ^a   Khudyakov, Yury ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

hamming distance; HCV; NGS; nucleotide diversity; outbreak; phylogenetic analysis; threshold; transmission networks

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; END POINT LIMITING DILUTION TECHNIQUE; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C; HOST; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84964882924     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv542     Document Type: Article

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