Tracking virus outbreaks in the twenty-first century

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 10-19

  Grubaugh, Nathan D ^a,b   Ladner, Jason T ^c   Lemey, Philippe ^d   Pybus, Oliver G ^e   Rambaut, Andrew ^f,g   Holmes, Edward C ^h   Andersen, Kristian G ^a,i  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h University of Sydney   (Australia)

ⁱ SCRIPPS RESEARCH TRANSLATIONAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OUTBREAK MAPPING; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; TRANSMISSION CHAIN TRACKING; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; GENETICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; VIRUSES;

EID: 85058611300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-018-0296-2     Document Type: Review

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