Microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health

Recent advances in sequencing technologies are changing the face of infectious disease investigation and control. Personalized anti-infective therapies and surveillance of emergent pathogen outbreaks are just two examples of the potential benefits of merging the fields of genomics and infectious dis...

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Main Authors: Peacock, Sharon J, Weinstock, George M
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262389/
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spelling pubmed-42623892014-12-11 Microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health Peacock, Sharon J Weinstock, George M Editorial Recent advances in sequencing technologies are changing the face of infectious disease investigation and control. Personalized anti-infective therapies and surveillance of emergent pathogen outbreaks are just two examples of the potential benefits of merging the fields of genomics and infectious diseases. BioMed Central 2014-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4262389/ /pubmed/25505493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-014-0103-5 Text en © Peacock and Weinstock et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 The licensee has exclusive rights to distribute this article, in any medium, for 12 months following its publication. After this time, the article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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author Peacock, Sharon J
Weinstock, George M
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Microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health
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Weinstock, George M
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title Microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health
title_short Microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health
title_full Microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health
title_fullStr Microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health
title_full_unstemmed Microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health
title_sort microbial sequencing to improve individual and population health
description Recent advances in sequencing technologies are changing the face of infectious disease investigation and control. Personalized anti-infective therapies and surveillance of emergent pathogen outbreaks are just two examples of the potential benefits of merging the fields of genomics and infectious diseases.
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262389/
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