Colunga-Salas P, Segura-Trejo D, Miranda-Caballero CI, Sánchez-Montes S, Arteaga-Vázquez M, Becker I

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Taking into consideration the underlying concept of molecular epidemiology as the axis of epidemiology, uniting insights at the molecular level and the understanding of diseases at the population and geographic levels, it is not surprising that the use of phylogenetic approaches to understand and to determine the geographic origin and traceability of animal cases, including humans, has increased over the years. However, methodological misconceptions, arisen because of an indiscriminate use of phylogenetic approaches, in many cases have led to wrong conclusions regarding the ancestors-descendants relationships that can be extrapolated to geographic scales.

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