Genomic Surveillance

Genomic surveillance entails sequencing pathogens' genomic make-up and looking for alterations connected to the causes or traits of a disease.

• Genomic surveillance is based on the idea that since any organism with a genome—including people, animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses—must duplicate its genetic material in order to reproduce, alterations known as mutations emerge from this process.
• Different species will experience mutations at different rates and to different degrees, but they always take place and can be observed.
• Our capacity to carry out genomic surveillance is fundamentally based on the genome's dynamic nature.
• Simply put, this involves sequencing the infectious agents ....