Evolutionary relationships among human-isolated and wildlife-isolated West Nile viruses.

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The evolutionary relationships among pathogen lineages in multi-host systems are often the only observable signature of unobserved ecological and epidemiological processes. The evolution of viruses infecting humans, particularly, is of interest because of the public health importance of understanding the relationship of virus exposure to disease risk. Here I report results of two analyses of the evolutionary...

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