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ReviewFoodborne pathogens and disease2019

Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing for Food Safety and Public Health in the United States.

Eric Brown, Uday Dessai, Sherri McGarry, 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 90 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eric Brown1 Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland.
Uday Dessai2 Office of Public Health Science, Food Safety and Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia.
Sherri McGarry3 Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Peter Gerner-Smidt3 Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used by food regulatory and public health agencies in the United States to facilitate the detection, investigation, and control of foodborne bacterial outbreaks, and food regulatory and other activities in support of food safety. WGS has added a level of precision to the surveillance leading to faster and more efficient decision making in the preparedness and response to foodborne infections. In this review, we report the history of WGS technology at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS) as it applies to food safety. The basic principle of the method, the analysis, and interpretation of the data are explained as is its major strengths and limitations. We also describe the benefits and possibilities of the WGS technology to the food industry throughout the farm-to-fork continuum and the prospects of metagenomic sequencing applied directly to the sample specimen with or without pre-enrichment culture.

Indexed as

Food SafetyPublic HealthPublic Health SurveillanceDisease OutbreaksFoodborne DiseasesHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansUnited StatesUnited States Government AgenciesWhole Genome SequencingCDCFDAfood safetyFSISsurveillanceWGSwhole-genome sequencing

Identifiers

PMID31194586
PMCPMC6653787

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