David Pollock

ALT A screenshot of the title, authors and abstract of a paper published in eLife. The Title is “Integrating genomic and epidemiologic data to accelerate progress toward schistosomiasis elimination”. There are 11 authors from the University of Colorado Anschutz, University of Texas at Arlington and the Sichuan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The beginning of the abstract reads “The global community has adopted ambitious goals to eliminate schistosomiasis as a public health problem, and new tools are needed to achieve them. Mass drug administration programs, for example, have reduced the burden of schistosomiasis, but the identification of hotspots of persistent and reemergent transmission threaten progress towards elimination and underscore the need to couple treatment with interventions that reduce transmission. Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies make whole genome sequencing a valuable and increasingly feasible option for population-based studies of complex parasit