Global genomic pathogen surveillance to inform vaccine strategies: a decade-long expedition in pneumococcal genomics

Abstract Vaccines are powerful agents in infectious disease prevention but often designed to protect against some strains that are most likely to spread and cause diseases. Most vaccines do not succeed in eradicating the pathogen and thus allow the potential emergence of vaccine evading strains. As...

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Main Authors: Stephen D. Bentley, Stephanie W. Lo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:Genome Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-021-00901-2