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. 2020 Jul;5(7):876-877.
doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0738-5.

Phylogenetic interpretation during outbreaks requires caution

Ch Julián Villabona-Arenas  1   2 , William P Hanage  3 , Damien C Tully  4   5
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Phylogenetic interpretation during outbreaks requires caution

Ch Julián Villabona-Arenas et al. Nat Microbiol. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

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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