High-throughput sequencing is being adopted to characterize microbial pathogens and track their evolution and spread.
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Chan, JM., Pallen, M., Oppenheim, B. et al. Genome sequencing in clinical microbiology. Nat Biotechnol 30, 1068–1071 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2410
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