Within-host evolution of human influenza virus

KS Xue, LH Moncla, T Bedford, JD Bloom - Trends in Microbiology, 2018 - cell.com
The rapid global evolution of influenza virus begins with mutations that arise de novo in
individual infections, but little is known about how evolution occurs within hosts. We review …

Within-host viral diversity: a window into viral evolution

AS Lauring - Annual Review of Virology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The evolutionary dynamics of a virus can differ within hosts and across populations. Studies
of within-host evolution provide an important link between experimental studies of virus …

[HTML][HTML] An amplicon-based sequencing framework for accurately measuring intrahost virus diversity using PrimalSeq and iVar

ND Grubaugh, K Gangavarapu, J Quick, NL Matteson… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
How viruses evolve within hosts can dictate infection outcomes; however, reconstructing this
process is challenging. We evaluate our multiplexed amplicon approach, PrimalSeq, to …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of within-host genetic diversity in SARS-CoV-2

G Tonkin-Hill, I Martincorena, R Amato, ARJ Lawson… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and reconstructing transmission chains has become
a major public health focus for many governments around the world. The modest mutation …

Human cytomegalovirus genomes sequenced directly from clinical material: variation, multiple-strain infection, recombination, and gene loss

NM Suárez, GS Wilkie, E Hage… - The Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The genomic characteristics of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) strains sequenced directly
from clinical pathology samples were investigated, focusing on variation, multiple-strain …

Linking influenza virus evolution within and between human hosts

KS Xue, JD Bloom - Virus evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Influenza viruses rapidly diversify within individual human infections. Several recent studies
have deep-sequenced clinical influenza infections to identify viral variation within hosts, but …

[HTML][HTML] Applying next-generation sequencing to unravel the mutational landscape in viral quasispecies

IN Lu, CP Muller, FQ He - Virus research, 2020 - Elsevier
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized the scale and depth of biomedical
sciences. Because of its unique ability for the detection of sub-clonal variants within …

Measurements of intrahost viral diversity require an unbiased diversity metric

L Zhao, CJR Illingworth - Virus Evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Viruses exist within hosts at large population sizes and are subject to high rates of mutation.
As such, viral populations exhibit considerable sequence diversity. A variety of summary …

A2B-COVID: a tool for rapidly evaluating potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission events

CJR Illingworth, WL Hamilton, C Jackson… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Identifying linked cases of infection is a critical component of the public health response to
viral infectious diseases. In a clinical context, there is a need to make rapid assessments of …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of within-host genetic diversity in acute infections of viruses

M Gelbart, S Harari, Y Ben-Ari, T Kustin, D Wolf… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Genetic diversity is the fuel of evolution and facilitates adaptation to novel environments.
However, our understanding of what drives differences in the genetic diversity during the …