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Metagenomic strain tracking reveals patterns of bacterial spread and the impact of water chlorination

2026-02-11 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Bacterial infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Children in LMICs are exposed to and colonized by a range of pathogenic bacteria, yet patterns of bacterial exchange between humans are not well known, in part because culturing and sequencing single bacterial isolates is labor-intensive. Here, we apply a machine learning strain tracking approach to metagenomic data from 511 stool samples from children and moth...

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