Pathogen genomics in public health

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 381, Issue 26, 2019, Pages 2569-2580

  Armstrong, Gregory L ^a   MacCannell, Duncan R ^a   Taylor, Jill ^d   Carleton, Heather A ^a   Neuhaus, Elizabeth B ^b   Bradbury, Richard S ^a   Posey, James E ^c   Gwinn, Marta ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIVIRAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA AURIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTIOUS AGENT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H3N2); INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H7N9); INFLUENZA VIRUS; LISTERIOSIS; METAGENOMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOFTWARE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; METAGENOMICS; PARASITES; PUBLIC HEALTH; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUSES;

EID: 85077287136     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr1813907     Document Type: Article

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