Elisabeth Njamkepo, Nizar Fawal, Alicia Tran-Dien, Jane Hawkey et al.
Together with plague, smallpox and typhus, epidemics of dysentery have been a major scourge of human populations for centuries1. A previous genomic study concluded that Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1), the epidemic dysentery bacillus, emerged and spread worldwide after the First World War, with no...