Charles Agoti: Using genomics to understand diarrhoea epidemiology
Channel: Tropical Medicine Oxford
Date: 2020-09-04

Dr Charles Agoti from our KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, tells us how bioinformatic tools can be used to better understand pathogens. 

Vaccines against rotavirus, the most common cause of diarrhoea globally, don’t work well in LMICs populations that need them the most. Co-infections might influence vaccine immunity. Genomics and epidemiology help us improve diagnostics, and find out whether some additional strains need to be included in future vaccines.