University of Liverpool, UK - Evolution of a killer: How African Salmonella made the leap from gut to bloodstream

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Evolution of a killer: How African Salmonella made the leap from gut to bloodstream

 

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University of Liverpool, 21 December 2020

https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2020/12/21/evolution-of-a-killer-how-african-salmonella-made-the-leap-from-gut-to-bloodstream/

From the news article:

University of Liverpool scientists have exploited the combined power of genomics and epidemiology to understand how a type of Salmonella bacteria evolved to kill hundreds of thousands of immunocompromised people in Africa.