Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Inferring HIV-1 transmission networks and sources of epidemic spread in Africa with deep-sequence phylogenetic analysis

  • Oliver Ratmann,
  • M. Kate Grabowski,
  • Matthew Hall,
  • Tanya Golubchik,
  • Chris Wymant,
  • Lucie Abeler-Dörner,
  • David Bonsall,
  • Anne Hoppe,
  • Andrew Leigh Brown,
  • Tulio de Oliveira,
  • Astrid Gall,
  • Paul Kellam,
  • Deenan Pillay,
  • Joseph Kagaayi,
  • Godfrey Kigozi,
  • Thomas C. Quinn,
  • Maria J. Wawer,
  • Oliver Laeyendecker,
  • David Serwadda,
  • Ronald H. Gray,
  • Christophe Fraser,
  • PANGEA Consortium and Rakai Health Sciences Program

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09139-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Here, Ratmann et al. show how viral deep sequencing data can be used to reconstruct HIV-1 transmission networks and to infer the direction of transmission in these networks.