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ReviewFoodborne pathogens and disease2019

Metagenomic Approaches for Public Health Surveillance of Foodborne Infections: Opportunities and Challenges.

Heather A Carleton, John Besser, Amanda J Williams-Newkirk, Andrew Huang, Eija Trees, Peter Gerner-Smidt

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Review in Foodborne pathogens and disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
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

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Heather A CarletonEnteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
John BesserEnteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Amanda J Williams-NewkirkEnteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Andrew HuangEnteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Eija TreesEnteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Peter Gerner-SmidtEnteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Foodborne disease surveillance in the United States is at a critical point. Clinical and diagnostic laboratories are using culture-independent diagnostic tests (CIDTs) to identify the pathogen causing foodborne illness from patient specimens. CIDTs are molecular tests that allow doctors to rapidly identify the bacteria causing illness within hours. CIDTs, unlike previous gold standard methods such as bacterial culture, do not produce an isolate that can be subtyped as part of the national molecular subtyping network for foodborne disease surveillance, PulseNet. Without subtype information, cases can no longer be linked using molecular data to identify potentially related cases that are part of an outbreak. In this review, we discuss the public health needs for a molecular subtyping approach directly from patient specimen and highlight different approaches, including amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing.

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LaboratoriesMetagenomicsPublic Health SurveillanceDisease OutbreaksFoodborne DiseasesGenome, BacterialHumansPublic HealthUnited Statesfoodborne disease surveillancemetagenomicswhole-genome sequencing

Identifiers

PMID31170005
PMCPMC6653786
OpenAlexW2956133711

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