Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies: insights from the World Health Organization’s regional initiatives

Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies: insights from the World Health Organization’s regional initiatives

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40% from February 2021 to July 2022. The Global Ge...

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Main Authors: Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Lisa L. Carter, Abdinasir Abubakar, Rachel Achilla, Amal Barakat, Nicksy Gumede, Alina Guseinova, Francis Yesurajan Inbanathan, Masaya Kato, Etien Koua, Juliana Leite, Marco Marklewitz, Jairo Mendez-Rico, Chavely Monamele, Biran Musul, Karen Nahapetyan, Dhamari Naidoo, Rachel Ochola, Mehmet Ozel, Philomena Raftery, Andrea Vicari, Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Joanna Zwetyenga, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Céline Barnadas, Mick Mulders, Dmitriy I. Pereyaslov, Jilian A. Sacks, Taylor Warren, Sébastien Cognat, Sylvie Briand, Gina Samaan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
pathogen genomic surveillance
pathogen sequencing
pathogen genomics
molecular epidemiology
public health surveillance
public health laboratories
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1146730/full

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