Abstract
This project will investigate an ongoing typhoid outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe using geographic profiling and classic epidemiology. Whole genome sequencing data from Salmonella typhi outbreak isolates will be investigated using bioinformatics methods. Data for this project will be collected as part of an ongoing multi-country study investigating the causes of fever.
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