The COVID-19 pandemic galvanized the field of virus genomic surveillance, demonstrating
its utility for public health. Now, we must harness the momentum that led to increased …

Genomic epidemiology, which links pathogen genomes with associated metadata to
understand disease transmission, has become a key component of outbreak response …

Investment in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequencing
in Africa over the past year has led to a major increase in the number of sequences that …

Introduction The ARTIC Network's primer set and amplicon-based protocol is one of the most
widely used SARS-CoV-2 sequencing protocol. An update to the V3 primer set was released …

Here, we report SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance from March 2020 until January 2021 in
Uganda, a landlocked East African country with a population of approximately 40 million …

Background A few studies have assessed the epidemiological impact and the cost-
effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in settings where most of the population had been …

Nanopore sensing is a disruptive, revolutionary way in which to sequence nucleic acids,
including both native DNA and RNA molecules. First commercialized with the MinIONTM …

The sharp increase of COVID-19 cases in late 2020 has made Brazil the new epicenter of
the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The novel viral lineages P. 1 (Variant of Concern …

Abstract Background The Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology
(PHA4GE)(https://pha4ge. org) is a global coalition that is actively working to establish …

Introductory paragraph SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in Uganda provides an
opportunity to provide a focused description of the virus evolution in a small landlocked East …