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Volz, Erik M. and Didelot, Xavier (2018) Modeling the growth and decline of pathogen effective population size provides insight into epidemic dynamics and drivers of antimicrobial resistance. Systematic Biology, 67 (4). pp. 719-728. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy007
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy007
Abstract
Nonparametric population genetic modeling provides a simple and flexible approach for studying demographic history and epidemic dynamics using pathogen sequence data. Existing Bayesian approaches are premised on stochastic processes with stationary increments which may provide an unrealistic prior for epidemic histories which feature extended period of exponential growth or decline. We show that nonparametric models defined in terms of the growth rate of the effective population size can provide a more realistic prior for epidemic history. We propose a nonparametric autoregressive model on the growth rate as a prior for effective population size, which corresponds to the dynamics expected under many epidemic situations. We demonstrate the use of this model within a Bayesian phylodynamic inference framework. Our method correctly reconstructs trends of epidemic growth and decline from pathogen genealogies even when genealogical data are sparse and conventional skyline estimators erroneously predict stable population size. We also propose a regression approach for relating growth rates of pathogen effective population size and time-varying variables that may impact the replicative fitness of a pathogen. The model is applied to real data from rabies virus and Staphylococcus aureus epidemics. We find a close correspondence between the estimated growth rates of a lineage of methicillin-resistant S. aureus and population-level prescription rates of
β-lactam antibiotics. The new models are implemented in an open source R package called skygrowth which is available at https://github.com/mrc-ide/skygrowth.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Systematic Biology | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1063-5157 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 67 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 719-728 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/sysbio/syy007 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
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