Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding and combating the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

SW Attwood, SC Hill, DM Aanensen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Determining the transmissibility, prevalence and patterns of movement of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is central to our understanding …

Ebola virus disease

ST Jacob, I Crozier, WA Fischer, A Hewlett… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe and frequently lethal disease caused by Ebola virus
(EBOV). EVD outbreaks typically start from a single case of probable zoonotic transmission …

Outbreak. info genomic reports: scalable and dynamic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants and mutations

K Gangavarapu, AA Latif, JL Mullen, M Alkuzweny… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, the global scientific
community, through unprecedented effort, has sequenced and shared over 11 million …

Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool

Á O'Toole, E Scher, A Underwood, B Jackson… - Virus …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The response of the global virus genomics community to the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has been unprecedented, with significant …

Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK

L Du Plessis, JT McCrone, AE Zarebski, V Hill, C Ruis… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The United Kingdom's COVID-19 epidemic during early 2020 was one of world's largest and
was unusually well represented by virus genomic sampling. We determined the fine-scale …

Resurgence of Ebola virus in 2021 in Guinea suggests a new paradigm for outbreaks

AK Keita, FR Koundouno, M Faye, A Düx, J Hinzmann… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Seven years after the declaration of the first epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Guinea, the
country faced a new outbreak—between 14 February and 19 June 2021—near the …

Spatiotemporal invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 7 emergence

MUG Kraemer, V Hill, C Ruis, S Dellicour, S Bajaj… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Understanding the causes and consequences of the emergence of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern is crucial to pandemic control yet …

Rapid implementation of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing to investigate cases of health-care associated COVID-19: a prospective genomic surveillance study

LW Meredith, WL Hamilton, B Warne… - The Lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The burden and influence of health-care associated severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is unknown. We aimed to examine the …

Untangling introductions and persistence in COVID-19 resurgence in Europe

P Lemey, N Ruktanonchai, SL Hong, V Colizza… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
After the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections in spring 2020, Europe experienced a
resurgence of the virus starting in late summer 2020 that was deadlier and more difficult to …

The episodic resurgence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 virus

R Xie, KM Edwards, M Wille, X Wei, SS Wong, M Zanin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 activity has intensified globally since 2021,
increasingly causing mass mortality in wild birds and poultry and incidental infections in …