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Genomic medicine has failed the poor

A decade on from a landmark genetic-sequencing study, promised progress on typhoid fever has not materialized, says Stephen Baker.

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Stephen Baker is head of enteric infections at the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit. He coordinates field and laboratory research in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Baker, S. Genomic medicine has failed the poor. Nature 478, 287 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/478287a

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