Examples of how developed countries use genomic pathogen surveillance in epidemic management

News articles

Nature: How countries are using genomics to help avoid a second coronavirus wave

The Conversation: Genome sequencing tells us the Auckland outbreak is a single cluster — except for one case

Journal articles

Meredith LW, Hamilton WL, Warne B, et al., 2020: Rapid implementation of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing to investigate cases of health-care associated COVID-19: a prospective genomic surveillance study

Twitter thread: (THREAD) FIVE EXAMPLES OF HOW GENOMICS + CLASSIC EPIDEMIOLOGY IS USED TO REDUCE HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED COVID-19

Grubaugh et al, 2019 Grubaugh, N., Ladner, J., Kraemer, M. et al. Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States. Nature 546, 401–405 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22400

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https://www.cogconsortium.uk/studies/

https://twitter.com/CovidGenomicsUK/status/1261305060702728197

https://gyazo.com/fe3b9430c0b35fa31e93b9c776bb814e

Where Are The SARS-CoV-2 Genomes From East Africa? - BioTechniques

A recent French study in bioRxiv has claimed the SARS-CoV-2 strain in France was not imported from China. This highlights the importance of a sequencing initiative to be able to properly trace the progress of the pandemic in every setting – the Icelandic approach.

Lythgoe et al, 2020 (preprint) Shared SARS-CoV-2 diversity suggests localised transmission of minority variants

Science Communication

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