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Mobile phone data helps track pathogen spread and evolution of superbugs - EurekAlert


Combining genomic data and human travel patterns over a 14-year period in South Africa reveals key insights into the spread, evolution and resistance patterns of a major bacterium behind pneumonia and meningitis globally.

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