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.

Author(s): Senghore M, Chaguza C, Bojang E, Tientcheu PE, Bancroft RE, Lo SW, Gladstone RA, McGee L, Worwui A, Foster-Nyarko E, Ceesay F, Okoi CB, Klugman KP, Breiman RF, Bentley SD, Adegbola R, Antonio M, Hanage WP, Kwambana-Adams BAJournal: Microb GenomPMID: 35119356 February 2022
The transmission dynamics of in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood due to a lack of adequate epidemiological and genomic data.…