Tracking the West Nile Virus | |||||
How can viral sequences help us establish the origin of the virus that appeared in the US in 1999? Epidemiologists have adopted bioinformatics approaches using sequence data from strains of pathogens to track the movement of bacteria and viruses from continent to continent.
Topic(s): Epidemiology, Medical Forensics, Phylogeny/Evolution Resources:
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