3 papers
q-bio.PE2025
Ancestral process for infectious disease outbreaks with superspreading
Xavier Didelot, David Helekal, Ian Roberts
When an infectious disease outbreak is of a relatively small size, describing the ancestry of a sample of infected individuals is difficult because most ancestral models assume lar…
q-bio.QM2025
A Bayesian Modelling Framework with Model Comparison for Epidemics with Super-Spreading
Hannah Craddock, Simon EF Spencer, Xavier Didelot
The transmission dynamics of an epidemic are rarely homogeneous. Super-spreading events and super-spreading individuals are two types of heterogeneous transmissibility. Inference o…
q-bio.PE2014
Epidemic clones, oceanic gene pools and eco-LD in the free living marine pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Yujun Cui, Xianwei Yang, Xavier Didelot +12
We investigated global patterns of variation in 157 whole genome sequences of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a free-living and seafood associated marine bacterium. Pandemic clones, respo…