Evolution, safety, and highly pathogenic influenza viruses. Author(s): Lipsitch M, Plotkin JB, Simonsen L, Bloom B|Journal: Science|PMID: 22723411| June 2012 Experience with influenza has shown that predictions of virus phenotype or fitness from nucleotide sequence are imperfect and that predicting…
Reconstructing influenza incidence by deconvolution of daily mortality time series. Author(s): Goldstein E, Dushoff J, Ma J, Plotkin JB, Earn DJ, Lipsitch M|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 20080801| December 2009 We propose a mathematically straightforward method to infer the incidence curve of an epidemic from a recorded daily death curve…