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Evolutionary Epidemiology

Evolutionary Epidemiology is an academic field within molecular epidemiology that examines the dynamics of infectious disease transmission and host-pathogen interactions through the integration of evolutionary biology principles, distinguishing it from other epidemiological approaches by emphasizing the genetic and selective mechanisms driving pathogen spread and adaptation.

1.4K

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120.8K

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9.3K

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2.4K

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2017–2026

543

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1.4K

Nextstrain: real-time tracking of pathogen evolution

James Hadfield, Colin Megill, Sidney M. Bell et al. · Bioinformatics · 2018 · 3.4K citations · Full text

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Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I

Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May · Nature · 1979 · 3.2K citations

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Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence

James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Peter Ekkehard Kopp et al. · Nature · 2005 · 2.7K citations · Full text

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Evolution of the novel coronavirus from the ongoing Wuhan outbreak and modeling of its spike protein for risk of human transmission

Xintian Xu, Ping Chen, Jingfang Wang et al. · Science China Life Sciences · 2020 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic

Gavin J. D. Smith, Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna, Justin Bahl et al. · Nature · 2009 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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Authors

9.3K

  1. AR
    Andrew Rambaut

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    30 publications · 8.7K citations

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    Oliver G. Pybus

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    29 publications · 7.2K citations

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  3. PL
    Philippe Lemey

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    24 publications · 5.2K citations

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  4. EC
    Edward C. Holmes

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    22 publications · 2.5K citations

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  5. JP
    Julian Parkhill

    Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom

    16 publications · 4.7K citations

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Institutions

2.4K

  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    54 h-index

    372 publications

    48.8K citations

  2. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    46 h-index

    168 publications

    21.1K citations

  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Atlanta, United States

    45 h-index

    217 publications

    23.4K citations

  4. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    39 h-index

    485 publications

    59.1K citations

  5. Fogarty International Center

    Bethesda, United States

    37 h-index

    88 publications

    10.8K citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    37 h-index

    216 publications

    39.9K citations

  7. Wellcome Sanger Institute

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    37 h-index

    616 publications

    88.8K citations

  8. Institut Pasteur

    Paris, France

    34 h-index

    182 publications

    32.1K citations

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  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 53 publications · 11.2K citations

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  2. PLoS ONE

    62 publications · 2.9K citations

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  3. Emerging infectious diseases

    EID · 47 publications · 3.5K citations

    30

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  4. Science

    36 publications · 12.3K citations

    29

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  5. Nature Communications

    30 publications · 3K citations

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