Anthrax — Nigeria
Anthrax, caused by the soil-borne bacterium _Bacillus anthracis_, is a disease with important public health and national security implications globally. Understanding the global genetic diversity of the pathogen is important for epidemiological and forensic investigations of anthrax events. Toward this, we describe _B. anthracis_ genetic diversity in Nigeria and confirm it belongs to a unique West African genetic group not yet reported beyond neighboring Cameroon and Chad and Mali. This
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