Phylogenetic interpretation during outbreaks requires caution.

Nat Microbiol

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Published: July 2020

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.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8168400PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0738-5DOI Listing

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