Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference.
Katharine S WalterEugene KimRenu VermaJonathan AltamiranoSean LearyYuan J CarringtonPrasanna JagannathanUpinder SinghMarisa K HolubarAruna SubramanianChaitan KhoslaYvonne MaldonadoJason R AndrewsPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2023)
Shared within-host variation may augment the information in consensus sequences for predicting transmission linkages. Improving sensitivity and specificity of within-host variant identification will improve the informativeness of within-host variation.