Abstract The recent Ebola and Zika epidemics demonstrate the need for the continuous
surveillance, rapid diagnosis and real-time tracking of emerging infectious diseases. Fast …

Viral phylodynamics is defined as the study of how epidemiological, immunological, and
evolutionary processes act and potentially interact to shape viral phylogenies. Since the …

To reconstruct the evolutionary dynamics of the 2019 novel‐coronavirus recently causing an
outbreak in Wuhan, China, 52 SARS‐CoV‐2 genomes available on 4 February 2020 at …

Phylogenetic trees can be used to infer the processes that generated them. Here, we
introduce a model, the Bayesian birth–death skyline plot, which explicitly estimates the rate …

We introduce the Bayesian skyline plot, a new method for estimating past population
dynamics through time from a sample of molecular sequences without dependence on a …

Mathematical models of transmission have become invaluable management tools in
planning for the control of emerging infectious diseases. A key variable in such models is the …

A key priority for infectious disease research is to clarify how pathogen genetic variation,
modulated by host immunity, transmission bottlenecks, and epidemic dynamics, determines …

The basic reproductive ratio, R 0, is defined as the expected number of secondary infections
arising from a single individual during his or her entire infectious period, in a population of …

International standardization and coordination of the nomenclature of variants of hepatitis C
virus (HCV) is increasingly needed as more is discovered about the scale of HCV‐related …

On the global scale, primary liver cancer is a major contributor to both cancer incidence and
mortality. It is the sixth most commonly occurring cancer in the world and the third largest …