Estimating the timing of mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 using a viral molecular evolution model

• Main Authors: Antoine Chaillon, Tanawan Samleerat, Faustine Zoveda, Sébastien Ballesteros, Alain Moreau, Nicole Ngo-Giang-Huong, Gonzague Jourdain, Sara Gianella, Marc Lallemant, Frantz Depaulis, Francis Barin
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84899580589&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/53063
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Background: Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is responsible for most pediatric HIV-1 infections worldwide. It can occur during pregnancy, labor, or breastfeeding. Numerous studies have used coalescent and molecular clock methods to understand the epidemic history of HIV-1, but the timing of verti...