By sequencing the bacteria responsible for yaws, a debilitating childhood disease, experts have uncovered new insights into how these bacteria re-emerge and evade treatment 🧬 Find out how these can be used to help inform public health interventions ⤵️ www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/ge...

Really pleased to see our work on yaws, and how mass drug administration shapes Treponema genomes, published in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social! sanger.ac.uk/news_item/genomics-uncovers-new-ways-to-target-chronic-childhood-disease/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Out @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social & led @amberbarton.bsky.social We used WGS to look at Treponema population dynamics during community MDA for yaws tinyurl.com/bd6zu6xm Intriguingly found sublineage associated w longer ulcer duration & lower antibody titres. Whether occurs in syphilis needs exploring

Delighted to share our preprint on the evolution of pandemic cholera at its global source in the ganges basin! doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.03.25321585

Had a wonderful time at 17th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition in Nepal- fantastic to meet up with infection researchers from all over the world, share results, chair a session for the first time and explore Kathmandu!

Pleased to share this preprint on Yaws transmission dynamics following mass azithromycin administration, led by Amber Barton www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Following MDA campaign, we sequenced >half of infections, showing recrudescence driven by existing lineages & persistence linked to key SNPs.