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Table 1 Overview of source attribution models

From: Transmission pathways of Campylobacter jejuni between humans and livestock in rural Ethiopia are highly complex and interdependent

Source attribution model

Input data

Summary data

Attribution pathways

Model fitting procedure

Asymmetric Island

Assembled contigs

cgST* profiles

Direct

MCMC&

k-mer

Raw reads

9-mers

Direct

Random Forest with feature reduction

PCO

Assembled contigs

cgST profiles + allele sequences

Direct

Random Forest without feature reduction

Source-sink

Assembled contigs

cgST profiles

Direct and indirect

MCMC

  1. *core genome Sequence Typing
  2. &Markov Chain Monte Carlo