Assessing biases in phylodynamic inferences in the presence of super-spreaders
Abstract Phylodynamic analyses using pathogen genetic data have become popular for making epidemiological inferences. However, many methods assume that the underlying host population follows homogenous mixing patterns. Nevertheless, in real disease outbreaks, a small number of individuals infect a d...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-09-01
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Series: | Veterinary Research |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13567-019-0692-5 |