Phylodynamics on local sexual contact networks
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Phylodynamics on local sexual contact networks
Phylodynamic models are widely used in infectious disease epidemiology to infer the dynamics and structure of pathogen populations. However, these models generally assume that individual hosts contact one another at random, ignoring the fact that many pathogens spread through highly structured contact networks. We present a new framework for phylodynamics on local contact networks based on pair...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Computational Biology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005448