Evaluation of A Phylogenetic Pipeline to Examine Transmission Networks in A Canadian HIV Cohort

Lauren Mak; Deshan Perera; Raynell Lang; Pathum Kossinna; Jingni He; M John Gill; Quan Long; Guido van Marle

doi:10.3390/microorganisms8020196

Evaluation of A Phylogenetic Pipeline to Examine Transmission Networks in A Canadian HIV Cohort

Microorganisms. 2020 Jan 31;8(2):196. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8020196.

Authors

Lauren Mak¹, Deshan Perera¹, Raynell Lang², Pathum Kossinna¹, Jingni He¹, M John Gill², Quan Long^{1

3

4}, Guido van Marle⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.
² Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.
³ Department of Medical Genetics, and Mathematics & Statistics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.
⁴ Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁵ Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.

Abstract

Keywords: HIV; Canada; molecular phylogenetics; viral evolution; person-to-person transmission inference; transmission network; summary statistics.

Abstract

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