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The emergence and spread of dysentery

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Shigella sonnei is an important cause of bacterial dysentery in the developed world and has also recently emerged in transitional countries. Phylogenetic analysis based on whole-genome sequencing of a global sample has detailed the recent evolutionary history of this pathogen and shed light on the genetic changes associated with this epidemiological shift.

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Figure 1: Transmission of S. sonnei out of Europe.

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  1. Edward J. Feil is at the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath, Bath, UK.,

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Feil, E. The emergence and spread of dysentery. Nat Genet 44, 964–965 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2389

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