title: The emergence and spread of dysentery.
abstract: Shigella sonnei is an important cause of bacterial dysentery in the developed world and has also recently emerged in transitional countries. Phylogenetic analysis based on whole-genome sequencing of a global sample has detailed the recent evolutionary history of this pathogen and shed light on the genetic changes associated with this epidemiological shift.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK. e.feil@bath.ac.uk
authors.forename: Edward J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Feil
mesh_terms: D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission*; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D012764:Shigella sonnei / Q000235:genetics*