| Literature DB >> 26139467 |
Louis du Plessis1, Tanja Stadler2.
Abstract
When epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics occur on similar timescales, pathogen genomes sampled from infected hosts carry a signature of the dynamics of epidemic spread. Phylodynamic inference methods aim to extract this signature from genetic data. We discuss the contribution of phylodynamics toward understanding the 2014 West African Ebola virus epidemic.Entities:
Keywords: Bayesian statistics; Ebola virus disease; MCMC; epidemiology; infectious diseases; phylogenetics
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26139467 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.04.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Microbiol ISSN: 0966-842X Impact factor: 17.079