title: Role of Clinicogenomics in Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Public Health Microbiology.
abstract: Clinicogenomics is the exploitation of genome sequence data for diagnostic, therapeutic, and public health purposes. Central to this field is the high-throughput DNA sequencing of genomes and metagenomes. The role of clinicogenomics in infectious disease diagnostics and public health microbiology was the topic of discussion during a recent symposium (session 161) presented at the 115th general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology that was held in New Orleans, LA. What follows is a collection of the most salient and promising aspects from each presentation at the symposium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Lars F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Westblade
authors.affiliation: bioMérieux, Inc., LaBalme, France.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Belkum
authors.affiliation: Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany.|German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grundhoff
authors.affiliation: The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: George M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Weinstock
authors.affiliation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Eric G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Pamer
authors.affiliation: Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Pallen
authors.affiliation: bioMérieux, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, USA william.dunne@biomerieux.com.
authors.forename: W Michael
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Dunne
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008828:Microbiological Techniques / Q000379:methods*