Apathogenic proxies for transmission dynamics of a fatal virus.

ABSTRACT: Identifying drivers of transmission-especially of emerging pathogens-is a formidable challenge for proactive disease management efforts. While close social interactions can be associated with microbial sharing between individuals, and thereby imply dynamics important for transmission, such associations can be obscured by the influences of factors such as shared diets or environments. Directly-transmitted viral agents, specifically those that are rapidly evolving such as many RNA viruses, can allow for high-resolution inference of transmission, and therefore hold promise for elucidating not only which individuals transmit to each other, but also drivers of those transmission events. Here, we tested a novel approach in the Florida panther, which is affected by several directly-transmitted fe

SUBMITTER: Gilbertson MLJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9493079 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature