title: Sharing Data for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Detection.
abstract: Rapid global sharing and comparison of epidemiological and genomic data on infectious diseases would enable more rapid and efficient global outbreak control and tracking of diseases. Several barriers for global sharing exist but, in our opinion, the presumed magnitude of the problems appears larger than they are, and solutions can be found.
authors.affiliation: Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. Electronic address: fmaa@food.dtu.dk.
authors.forename: Frank M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Aarestrup
authors.affiliation: Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marion G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Koopmans
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003199:Computer Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000379:methods*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: bacteria; genomics; infection; metagenomics; surveillance; virus