Status and potential of bacterial genomics for public health practice: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is increasingly being translated into routine public health practice, affecting the surveillance and control of many pathogens. The purpose of this scoping review is to identify and characterize the recent literature concerning the application of bacterial pathogen genomics for public health practice and to assess the added value, challenges, and needs related to its implementation from an epidemiologist's perspective.

Methods

In this scoping review, a systematic PubMed search with forward and backward snowballing was performed to identify manuscripts in English published between January 2015 and September 2018. Included studies had to describe the application of NGS on bacterial isolates within a public health setting. The studied

SUBMITTER: Van Goethem N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692930 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature