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Viruses in sewage help to pinpoint typhoid hotspots

Targeting the virus that infects the disease-causing bacterium could be a cheap way to prioritize populations for vaccination campaigns.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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Scanning waste water for viruses that infect the bacterium that causes typhoid fever — rather than the bacterium itself — could inform vaccine roll-outs, according to two studies conducted in Bangladesh1 and Nepal2, which have not yet been peer-reviewed.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00745-3

References

  1. Hooda, Y. et al. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.14.23285884 (2023).

  2. Shrestha, S. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.14.23285806 (2023).

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