When are pathogen genome sequences informative of transmission events?

Finlay Campbell; Camilla Strang; Neil Ferguson; Anne Cori; Thibaut Jombart

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006885

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When are pathogen genome sequences informative of transmission events?

Finlay Campbell ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: f.campbell15@imperial.ac.uk (FC); thibautjombart@gmail.com (TJ); a.cori@imperial.ac.uk (AC)

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1849-1886

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Camilla Strang,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance, Animal Health Trust, Suffolk, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8248-7470

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Neil Ferguson,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Anne Cori ,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: f.campbell15@imperial.ac.uk (FC); thibautjombart@gmail.com (TJ); a.cori@imperial.ac.uk (AC)

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8443-9162

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Thibaut Jombart

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: f.campbell15@imperial.ac.uk (FC); thibautjombart@gmail.com (TJ); a.cori@imperial.ac.uk (AC)

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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When are pathogen genome sequences informative of transmission events?

Finlay Campbell,
Camilla Strang,
Neil Ferguson,
Anne Cori,
Thibaut Jombart

Published: February 8, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006885

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