Scientists have recovered whole genomes of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, directly from an urban river flowing through Johannesburg, South Africa. The finding, published in MicrobiologyOpen, marks the first time the globally dominant H58 lineage of the pathogen has been genomically confirmed in South African surface water. More striking still, when […]
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