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SUBMITTER: Eybpoosh S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5614305 | biostudies-other | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Eybpoosh Sana S Haghdoost Ali Akbar AA Mostafavi Ehsan E Bahrampour Abbas A Azadmanesh Kayhan K Zolala Farzaneh F
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Molecular epidemiology (ME) is a branch of epidemiology developed by merging molecular biology into epidemiological studies. In this paper, the authors try to discuss the ways that molecular epidemiology studies identify infectious diseases' causation and pathogenesis, and unravel infectious agents' sources, reservoirs, circulation pattern, transmission pattern, transmission probability, and transmission order. They bring real-world examples of research works in each area to make each study desi ...[more]