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Declaring a tuberculosis outbreak over with genomic epidemiology

We report an updated method for inferring the time at which an infectious disease was transmitted between persons from a time-labelled pathogen genome phylogeny. We applied the method to 48 Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes as part of a real-time public health outbreak investigation, demonstrating...

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Autores principales: Hatherell, Hollie-Ann, Didelot, Xavier, Pollock, Sue L., Tang, Patrick, Crisan, Anamaria, Johnston, James C., Colijn, Caroline, Gardy, Jennifer L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28348853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000060