Pathogen Genomics in Public Health
Gregory L. Armstrong, Duncan MacCannell, Jill Taylor, Heather A. Carleton, Elizabeth B. Neuhaus, Richard S. Bradbury, James E. Posey, Marta Gwinn
Abstract
(Abstracted from N Engl J Med 2019;381:2569–2580) Next-generation sequencing (NGS) can quickly characterize microbes and help scientists understand how they are transmitted. Public health agencies have been utilizing pathogen genomics in order to better identify the cause of infectious diseases.
Topics & Concepts
GenomicsPathogenMedicinePublic healthDNA sequencingComputational biologyGeneticsGenomeBiologyGeneImmunologyPathologyZoonotic diseases and public health