A Bayesian model of acquisition and clearance of bacterial colonization incorporating within-host variation
Marko Järvenpää, Mohamad Sater, Georgia Lagoudas, Paul C. Blainey, Loren Gregory Miller, James A. McKinnell, Susan S. Huang, Yonatan H. Grad, Pekka Marttinen
The paper presents a Bayesian model to estimate bacterial acquisition and clearance rates by accounting for within-host genetic variation and sampling intervals, validated using simulations and applied to MRSA isolates.
PLoS Computational Biology · Apr 22, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics