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ReviewEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2017

PulseNet International: Vision for the implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for global food-borne disease surveillance.

Celine Nadon, Ivo Van Walle, Peter Gerner-Smidt, Josefina Campos, Isabel Chinen, Jeniffer Concepcion-Acevedo, Brent Gilpin, Anthony M Smith, Kai Man Kam, Enrique Perez and 6 more

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Review in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 188 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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188citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

188 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Celine NadonPublic Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Canada.
Ivo Van WalleThese authors contributed equally to this work.
Peter Gerner-SmidtCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, United States.
Josefina CamposNational Institute of Infectious Diseases "Dr Carlos G. Malbran", Argentina.
Isabel ChinenNational Institute of Infectious Diseases "Dr Carlos G. Malbran", Argentina.
Jeniffer Concepcion-AcevedoCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, United States.
Brent GilpinInstitute of Environmental Science and Research Limited; Christchurch, New Zealand.
Anthony M SmithNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa.
Kai Man KamChinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Adminstrative Region, China.
Enrique PerezPan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States.
Eija TreesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, United States.
Kristy KubotaAssociation of Public Health Laboratories, United States.
Johanna TakkinenEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Eva Møller NielsenStatens Serum Institut, Denmark.
Heather CarletonCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, United States.
FWD-NEXT Expert PanelThe members of the FWD-NEXT Expert Panel are listed at the end of the article.

Funding

Integrating the world's microbiology laboratories into a global microbial surveillance systemU01CA207167 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI STELLING, JOHN · 2016 to 2018
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA207167World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PulseNet International is a global network dedicated to laboratory-based surveillance for food-borne diseases. The network comprises the national and regional laboratory networks of Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the United States. The PulseNet International vision is the standardised use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) to identify and subtype food-borne bacterial pathogens worldwide, replacing traditional methods to strengthen preparedness and response, reduce global social and economic disease burden, and save lives. To meet the needs of real-time surveillance, the PulseNet International network will standardise subtyping via WGS using whole genome multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST), which delivers sufficiently high resolution and epidemiological concordance, plus unambiguous nomenclature for the purposes of surveillance. Standardised protocols, validation studies, quality control programmes, database and nomenclature development, and training should support the implementation and decentralisation of WGS. Ideally, WGS data collected for surveillance purposes should be publicly available, in real time where possible, respecting data protection policies. WGS data are suitable for surveillance and outbreak purposes and for answering scientific questions pertaining to source attribution, antimicrobial resistance, transmission patterns, and virulence, which will further enable the protection and improvement of public health with respect to food-borne disease.

Indexed as

Databases, FactualDisease OutbreaksFood MicrobiologyGenome, BacterialPublic HealthFoodborne DiseasesHumansLaboratoriesMultilocus Sequence TypingWhole Genome SequencingFoodborne infectionslaboratory surveillancemolecular methodspublic health policy

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PMID28662764
PMCPMC5479977

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