Real-time digital pathogen surveillance - the time is now

Jennifer Gardy; Nicholas J Loman; Andrew Rambaut

doi:10.1186/s13059-015-0726-x

Real-time digital pathogen surveillance - the time is now

Jennifer Gardy, Nicholas J Loman, Andrew Rambaut

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Abstract

It is time to shake up public health surveillance. New technologies for sequencing, aided by friction-free approaches to data sharing, could have an impact on public health efforts.

Original language	English
Article number	155
Number of pages	3
Journal	Genome Biology
Volume	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0726-x
Publication status	Published - 30 Jul 2015

Keywords

Journal Article
Ebola
Real-time whole-genome sequencing
Surveillance
Salmonella

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