title: Real-time digital pathogen surveillance - the time is now.
abstract: It is time to shake up public health surveillance. New technologies for sequencing, aided by friction-free approaches to data sharing, could have an impact on public health efforts.
authors.affiliation: Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4R4, Canada.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gardy
authors.affiliation: Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. n.j.loman@bham.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Nicholas J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Loman
authors.affiliation: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 2FL, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rambaut
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D060005:Genotyping Techniques; D006801:Humans; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology / Q000379:methods*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011634:Public Health; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control
keywords: Ebola; Real-time whole-genome sequencing; Salmonella; Surveillance