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

• Main Authors: Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande (Author), Lisa L. Carter (Author), Abdinasir Abubakar (Author), Rachel Achilla (Author), Amal Barakat (Author), Nicksy Gumede (Author), Alina Guseinova (Author), Francis Yesurajan Inbanathan (Author), Masaya Kato (Author), Etien Koua (Author), Juliana Leite (Author), Marco Marklewitz (Author), Jairo Mendez-Rico (Author), Chavely Monamele (Author), Biran Musul (Author), Karen Nahapetyan (Author), Dhamari Naidoo (Author), Rachel Ochola (Author), Mehmet Ozel (Author), Philomena Raftery (Author), Andrea Vicari (Author), Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe (Author), Joanna Zwetyenga (Author), Kelly Safreed-Harmon (Author), Céline Barnadas (Author), Mick Mulders (Author), Dmitriy I. Pereyaslov (Author), Jilian A. Sacks (Author), Taylor Warren (Author), Sébastien Cognat (Author), Sylvie Briand (Author), Gina Samaan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...