Publication Date:
2001-06-26
Description:
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading worldwide cause of liver disease. Here, we use a new model of HCV spread to investigate the epidemic behavior of the virus and to estimate its basic reproductive number from gene sequence data. We find significant differences in epidemic behavior among HCV subtypes and suggest that these differences are largely the result of subtype-specific transmission patterns. Our model builds a bridge between the disciplines of population genetics and mathematical epidemiology by using pathogen gene sequences to infer the population dynamic history of an infectious disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pybus, O G -- Charleston, M A -- Gupta, S -- Rambaut, A -- Holmes, E C -- Harvey, P H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Jun 22;292(5525):2323-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK. oliver.pybus@zoo.ox.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11423661" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Endemic Diseases
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Genes, Viral
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Hepacivirus/classification/genetics/*physiology
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Hepatitis C/*epidemiology/transmission/*virology
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Humans
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Likelihood Functions
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Models, Biological
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Molecular Epidemiology
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Phylogeny
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Population Dynamics
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Prevalence
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Substance Abuse, Intravenous/complications
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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