Phylogenetic interpretation during outbreaks requires caution
Open Access
- 19 May 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Microbiology
- Vol. 5 (7), 876-877
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0738-5
Abstract
How viruses are related, and how they have evolved and spread over time, can be investigated using phylogenetics. Here, we set out how genomic analyses should be used during an epidemic and propose that phylogenetic insights from the early stages of an outbreak should heed all of the available epidemiological information.Keywords
Funding Information
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U24DA044801, R01AI128344)
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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