TY - JOUR AU - Colman, Rebecca E. AU - Vogler, Amy J. AU - Lowell, Jennifer L. AU - Gage, Kenneth L. AU - Morway, Christina AU - Reynolds, Pamela J. AU - Ettestad, Paul AU - Keim, Paul AU - Kosoy, Michael Y. AU - Wagner, David M. T1 - Fine-scale Identification of the Most Likely Source of a Human Plague Infection T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 10 SP - 1623 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe an analytic approach to provide fine-scale discrimination among multiple infection source hypotheses. This approach uses mutation-rate data for rapidly evolving multiple locus variable-number tandem repeat loci in probabilistic models to identify the most likely source. We illustrate the utility of this approach using data from a North American human plague investigation. KW - Molecular epidemiology KW - plague KW - Yersinia pestis KW - VNTR KW - MLVA KW - probabilistic modeling KW - bacteria KW - dispatch KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1510.090188 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/10/09-0188_article ER - End of Reference