Inferring epidemiological dynamics of infectious diseases using Tajima's D statistic on nucleotide sequences of pathogens

The estimation of the basic reproduction number is essential to understand epidemic dynamics, and time series data of infected individuals are usually used for the estimation. However, such data are not always available. Methods to estimate the basic reproduction number using genealogy constructed f...

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Main Authors: Kiyeon Kim, Ryosuke Omori, Kimihito Ito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-12-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436517300853