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Widespread sharing of pneumococcal strains in a rural African setting: proximate villages are more likely to share similar strains that are carried at multiple timepoints

The transmission dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood due to a lack of adequate epidemiological and genomic data. Here we leverage a longitudinal cohort from 21 neighbouring villages in rural Africa to study how closely related strains of S. pneumoniae are...

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Autores principales: Senghore, Madikay, Chaguza, Chrispin, Bojang, Ebrima, Tientcheu, Peggy-Estelle, Bancroft, Rowan E., Lo, Stephanie W., Gladstone, Rebecca A., McGee, Lesley, Worwui, Archibald, Foster-Nyarko, Ebenezer, Ceesay, Fatima, Okoi, Catherine Bi, Klugman, Keith P., Breiman, Robert F., Bentley, Stephen D., Adegbola, Richard, Antonio, Martin, Hanage, William P., Kwambana-Adams, Brenda A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8942022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35119356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000732