James Stimson

TL;DR: Simulation results indicate that the transmission-based method is better in identifying direct transmissions than a SNP threshold, with dissimilarity between clusterings, and results show that it is likely to outperform the SNP-threshold method where clock rates are variable and sample collection times are spread out.

TL;DR: Simulation results indicate that the transmission-based method is better at identifying direct transmissions than a SNP threshold, and results show that it is likely to outperform the SNP threshold where clock rates are variable and sample collection times are spread out.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a metric on transmission trees to quantify distances between them, and illustrate its performance on simple simulated scenarios and on posterior transmission trees from a TB outbreak.

TL;DR: Pat age, alcohol abuse and history of homelessness were found to be the most important predictors of being credible TB transmitters.

TL;DR: Pat age, alcohol abuse and history of homelessness were found to be the most important predictors of being credible tuberculosis transmitters.