Genomics, social media and mobile phone data enable mapping of SARS-CoV-2 lineages to inform health policy in Bangladesh.

Author(s): Cowley LA, Afrad MH, Rahman SIA, Mamun MMA, Chin T, Mahmud A, Rahman MZ, Billah MM, Khan MH, Sultana S, Khondaker T, Baker S, Banik N, Alam AN, Mannoor K, Banu S, Chowdhury A, Flora MS, Thomson NR, Buckee CO, Qadri F, Shirin TJournal: Nat MicrobiolPMID: 34497354 September 2021
Genomics, combined with population mobility data, used to map importation and spatial spread of SARS-CoV-2 in high-income countries has enabled…

Genomic and mobility data reveal mass population movement as a driver of SARS-CoV-2 dissemination and diversity in Bangladesh

Author(s): Cowley LA, Afrad MH, Rahman SIA, Mahfuz-Al-Mamun Md, Chin T, Mahmud AS, Rahman MZ, Billah MM, Khan MH, Sultana S, Khondaker T, Baker S, Banik N, Alam AN, Mannoor K, Banu S, Chowdhury A, Flora MS, Thomson N, Buckee C, Qadri F, Shirin TJournal: medRxiv January 2021
New data streams are being used to track the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, including genomic data which provides insights into patterns…

Rapid pneumococcal evolution in response to clinical interventions.

Author(s): Croucher NJ, Harris SR, Fraser C, Quail MA, Burton J, van der Linden M, McGee L, von Gottberg A, Song JH, Ko KS, Pichon B, Baker S, Parry CM, Lambertsen LM, Shahinas D, Pillai DR, Mitchell TJ, Dougan G, Tomasz A, Klugman KP, Parkhill J, Hanage WP, Bentley SDJournal: SciencePMID: 21273480 January 2011
Epidemiological studies of the naturally transformable bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae have previously been confounded by high rates of recombination. Sequencing…