UK and South Africa unveil disease-tracking partnership

Collaboration sets out to broaden reach of genomic surveillance to detect epidemics

Two genomic surveillance labs in South Africa and the United Kingdom have announced a collaboration that will see them join forces to study emerging threats posed by contagious disease.

The partnership between the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s Genomics Surveillance Unit in London and Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation was announced on 25 January.