Title

SARS-CoV-2 sequencing for public health impact.

Authors

Noah Kojima; Eugenia Khorosheva; Lopez, Lauren; Hanewich-Hollatz, Mikhail; Ignacio-Espinoza, J. Cesar; Brobeck, Matthew; Chen, Janet; Geluz, Matthew; Hess, Victoria; Quasem, Sophia; Sandhu, Nabjot; Salfati, Elias; Shacreaw, Maria; Way, George; Zhiyi Xie; Slepnev, Vladimir; Klausner, Jeffrey D.

Abstract

The article focuses on the sequencing of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), for public health impact. Topics include the development of the tools needed to address SARS-CoV-2; the need of the continued vigilance as the frequency and distribution of SARS-CoV-2 transitions from a pandemic to endemic state; and the use of the outpatient SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance to inform public health efforts to identify changes in SARS-CoV-2 strains in local communities.

Subjects

CALIFORNIA; PUBLIC health surveillance; PATHOLOGICAL laboratories; COVID-19; SEQUENCE analysis; GENETIC mutation; PUBLIC health; CONTINUING education units; COLLECTION & preservation of biological specimens

Publication

Medical Laboratory Observer (MLO), 2022, Vol 54, Issue 6, p8

ISSN

0580-7247

Publication type

Periodical