Characterising the epidemic spread of Influenza A/H3N2 within a city through phylogenetics
N. F. Müller, D. Wüthrich, N. Goldman, N. Sailer, C. Saalfrank, M. Brunner, N. Augustin, H. M. Seth-Smith, Y. Hollenstein, M. Syedbasha, D. Lang, R. A. Neher, O. Dubuis, M. Naegele, A. Buser, , T. Stadler
The paper uses genetic sequence data and patient metadata to analyze local influenza transmission dynamics in Basel, Switzerland, finding that temperature trends correlate with transmission and that elderly and school children drive different transmission networks.
bioRxiv · Apr 27, 2020Evolutionary Biology