The Threshold Bootstrap Clustering: A New Approach to Find Families or Transmission Clusters within Molecular Quasispecies

• Mattia C. F. Prosperi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mattia C. F. Prosperi, Marco Salemi

  * E-mail: ahnven@yahoo.it

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Clinic, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Andrea De Luca,

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Clinic, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy, Infectious Diseases Unit II, University Hospital of Siena, Siena, Italy

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• Simona Di Giambenedetto,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Clinic, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

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• Laura Bracciale,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Clinic, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

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• Massimiliano Fabbiani,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Clinic, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

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• Roberto Cauda,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Clinic, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

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• Marco Salemi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mattia C. F. Prosperi, Marco Salemi

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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