Shared Genomic Variants: Identification of Transmission Routes Using Pathogen Deep-Sequence Data

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1209-1216

  Worby, Colin J ^a,b   Lipsitch, Marc ^a   Hanage, William P ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola virus; epidemics; genomics; infection control; infectious disease outbreaks; molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOMICS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIVITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SIERRA LEONE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

EBOLA VIRUS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 85037681311     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx182     Document Type: Article

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