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A systematic review of economic evaluations of whole-genome sequencing for the surveillance of bacterial pathogens.
Vivien Price et al. Microbial genomics 2023 2 (2) (Posted: Feb 17, 2023 9AM)

Six hundred and eighty-one articles were identified, of which 49 proceeded to full-text screening, with 9 selected for inclusion. All had been published since 2019. Heterogeneity was high. Five studies assessed WGS for hospital surveillance and four analyzed foodborne pathogens. Four were cost-benefit analyses, one was a cost-utility analysis, one was a cost-effectiveness analysis, one was a combined cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis, one combined cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses and one was a partial analysis. All studies supported the use of WGS as a surveillance tool on economic grounds.

Using Genomic Epidemiology to Advance Public Health Action
CDC Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds, February 22, 2022 Brand (Posted: Jan 25, 2022 8AM)

Rapid advances in genomic technologies, such as genomic sequencing, are transforming how we respond to public health threats. Scientists use genomic sequencing to identify and prevent a wide variety of pathogens, including those that cause foodborne illness, tuberculosis, and COVID-19. Combining genomics and epidemiology—coined “genomic epidemiology”—provides a powerful tool for surveillance, outbreak detection, as well as response, and indicates a future where the human genome can direct public health action.

A Plan to Use Modern Data Tools to Fight Foodborne Illness
MC Jaklevic, JAMA, August 18, 2020 (Posted: Aug 20, 2020 6AM)

New FDA blueprint outlines 4 goals: improve traceability with steps such as encouraging companies to move away from paper records, adopt data tools such as predictive analytics to target inspections and avert outbreaks, ensure the safety of grocery deliveries and restaurant meals, and foster a universal culture of food safety.

New Era of Smarter Food Safety
FDA, July 13, 2020 (Posted: Jul 14, 2020 8AM)

A new blueprint outlines the approach FDA will take over the next decade to usher in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety. This document represents achievable goals to enhance traceability, improve predictive analytics, respond more rapidly to outbreaks, address new business models, reduce contamination of food, and foster stronger food safety cultures.

Beyond the Data Podcast, CDC Public Health Grand Rounds
CDC, January 2020 Brand (Posted: Jan 28, 2020 7AM)

New technologies are helping detect and fight infectious diseases such as bacterial foodborne illness, tuberculosis, influenza, malaria and Legionnaires' disease. Doctors John Iskander and Greg Armstrong discuss rapid advances in Advanced Molecular Detection and how these technologies are being applied in public health now and in the future.

Translating 'big data': better understanding of host-pathogen interactions to control bacterial foodborne pathogens in poultry.
Deblais Loïc et al. Animal health research reviews 2020 Jan 1-21 (Posted: Jan 15, 2020 8AM)

The Emerging Role of Pathogen Genomics in Public Health
CDC Public Health Grand Rounds, January 21, 2020 Brand (Posted: Jan 08, 2020 10AM)

The Advanced Molecular Detection technologies are now in use across the range of infectious diseases of public health importance, such as bacterial foodborne illness, tuberculosis, influenza, malaria and Legionnaires’ Disease. This session of Public Health Grand Rounds will address how these technologies are being applied in public health, and their future uses.

Progress in Pathogen Genomics as a Prototype for Precision Public Health
MJ Khoury, CDC Blog Post, January 2, 2020 Brand (Posted: Jan 04, 2020 2PM)

Rapid advances in pathogen genomics have ushered in a new era of “precision public health.” Next-generation sequencing is already enabling more effective investigations of outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, better-targeted tuberculosis control, and more timely and granular influenza surveillance.

Restaurants are using AI to listen in on social media. They want to know how you are feeling
M Harden, Stat News, October 2019 (Posted: Oct 28, 2019 3PM)

An important trend is the immediacy and virality of social media. One person on Twitter can report to the world in real-time the effects of a bad meal, potentially tanking the restaurant’s stock price before the company even knows what happened, or where the outbreak began.

Working Together on the Transition to Whole Genome Sequencing, Making Our Food Supply Safer
R Khabbaz, CSTE Blog, September 18, 2019 (Posted: Sep 23, 2019 8AM)

For more than 20 years, PulseNet has helped detect, investigate, and stop outbreaks and improve our food safety system nationwide, reducing the overall burden of enteric disease in the United States. In 2019, we have seen the culmination of an exceptional effort to transform foodborne disease surveillance in the era of next-generation sequencing.

The use of next generation sequencing for improving food safety: Translation into practice.
Jagadeesan Balamurugan et al. Food microbiology 2019 Jun 7996-115 (Posted: Apr 24, 2019 7AM)

Probes of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks Multiply as Technology Improves- Growing number of multistate outbreak investigations raise pressure on U.S. food companies, from farm to fork
J Newman, WSJ, December 18, 2018 (Posted: Dec 18, 2018 11AM)

As Tests for Foodborne Illness Evolve, Disease-Tracking Systems Must Adapt
Pew Charitable Trust, Apr 30, 2018 (Posted: May 07, 2018 7PM)

Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli & Food Safety
Outbreak Alert Brand (Posted: Apr 17, 2018 6PM)

Whole Genome Sequencing: The Future of Food Safety
CDC YouTube video Brand (Posted: Nov 25, 2017 11AM)

Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Infections Associated with Flour.
Crowe Samuel J et al. The New England journal of medicine 2017 Nov (21) 2036-2043 (Posted: Nov 25, 2017 11AM)

Making the Case for Using Whole Genome Sequencing to Fight Foodborne Illness Globally
S Musser et al FDA Blog, Sep 14, 2017 (Posted: Sep 14, 2017 6PM)

Molecular Epidemiology and Sequencing Approaches in Public Health - Modules
New York Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence, Cornell University (Posted: Sep 14, 2017 3PM)

Clinical Microbiology Laboratories' Adoption of Culture-Independent Diagnostic Tests Is a Threat to Foodborne-Disease Surveillance in the United States.
Shea Shari et al. Journal of clinical microbiology 2017 Jan (1) 10-19 (Posted: Aug 21, 2017 9AM)

Solve Foodborne Outbreaks
Brand (Posted: Jun 16, 2017 8AM)

PulseNet International
Brand (Posted: Jun 08, 2017 6PM)

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) for food-borne pathogen surveillance and control – taking the pulse
J Moran-Gilad, Eurosurveillance 2.0, June 2017 (Posted: Jun 08, 2017 1PM)

PulseNet International: Vision for the implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for global food-borne disease surveillance
C Nadon et al, Eurosurveillance 2.0, June 2017 (Posted: Jun 08, 2017 1PM)

Study of bacteria’s DNA fingerprint suggests it could be spreading via food distribution
Science Magazine, April 2017 (Posted: Apr 25, 2017 2PM)

Metagenomics of two severe foodborne outbreaks provides diagnostic signatures and signs of co-infection not attainable by traditional methods.
Huang Andrew D et al. Applied and environmental microbiology 2016 Nov (Posted: Dec 07, 2016 9AM)

Genomics Technique Could Accelerate Detection of Foodborne Bacterial Outbreaks
(Posted: Nov 30, 2016 4PM)

Future challenges for tracking foodborne diseases
EM Ribot et al, EMBO Press, November 2016 (Posted: Nov 04, 2016 9AM)

The FDA's Experience with Emerging Genomics Technologies-Past, Present, and Future.
Xu Joshua et al. The AAPS journal 2016 Jul (4) 814-8 (Posted: Sep 05, 2016 7PM)

Regulatory bioinformatics for food and drug safety.
Healy Marion J et al. Regulatory toxicology and pharmacology : RTP 2016 Oct 342-7 (Posted: Sep 05, 2016 7PM)

Whole Genome Sequencing for Genomics-Guided Investigations of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreaks.
Rusconi Brigida et al. Frontiers in microbiology 2016 985 (Posted: Sep 05, 2016 7PM)

20th Anniversary of PulseNet: the National Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Disease Surveillance — United States, 2016
CDC MMWR, June 23, 2016 (Posted: Jun 24, 2016 0PM)

Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food and the Effect of Increasing Use of Culture-Independent Diagnostic Tests on Surveillance — Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, 10 U.S. Sites, 2012–2015
MMWR, April 15, 2016 Brand (Posted: Apr 15, 2016 2PM)

Exploring AMD methods for diagnosing gastrointestinal bacteria
Brand (Posted: Mar 18, 2016 9AM)

20 Years of PulseNet
Brand (Posted: Mar 15, 2016 6PM)

Microbial genomics: a new tool to increase food quality and safety
EUFIC, 2015 (Posted: Jan 29, 2016 7AM)

An insight into the isolation, enumeration, and molecular detection of Listeria monocytogenes in food.
Law Jodi Woan-Fei et al. Frontiers in microbiology 2015 1227 (Posted: Jan 29, 2016 7AM)

Genotoxicity assessment of propyl thiosulfinate oxide, an organosulfur compound from Allium extract, intended to food active packaging.
Mellado-García P et al. Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association 2015 Dec 365-73 (Posted: Jan 29, 2016 7AM)

Food Testing Start-Up Looks to Stand Out With a New Wrinkle
J Morrisey, New York Times, January 27, 2016 (Posted: Jan 29, 2016 7AM)

Safer Food Saves Lives: Stopping multistate foodborne outbreaks
CDC Vital Signs, November 2015 Brand (Posted: Nov 04, 2015 5PM)

Whole Genome Sequencing: The Future of Food Safety - Video
Brand (Posted: Oct 23, 2015 2PM)

Food Safety Savvy
Brand (Posted: Sep 09, 2015 11AM)

FDA using DNA to track foodborne illness before it spreads,
by Julie Steenhuysen & Reuters, Genetic Literacy Project, Aug 28 (Posted: Sep 02, 2015 1PM)

Characterization of Foodborne Outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis with Whole-Genome Sequencing SNP-based Analysis for Surveillance and Outbreak Detection.
Taylor Angela J et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Aug 12. (Posted: Aug 21, 2015 10AM)

Human norovirus as a foodborne pathogen: challenges and developments.
Moore Matthew D et al. Annu Rev Food Sci Technol 2015 411-33 (Posted: Jul 31, 2015 8AM)

GeneSippr: A Rapid Whole-Genome Approach for the Identification and Characterization of Foodborne Pathogens such as Priority Shiga Toxigenic Escherichia coli.
Lambert Dominic et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (4) e0122928 (Posted: Apr 24, 2015 10AM)

Norovirus genotype profiles associated with foodborne transmission, 1999-2012.
Verhoef Linda et al. Emerging Infect. Dis. 2015 Apr (4) 592-9 (Posted: Apr 09, 2015 7AM)

CDC data show progress in reducing some foodborne infections in 2014
Brand (Posted: Feb 25, 2015 0PM)

Bacterial Enteric Infections Detected by Culture-Independent Diagnostic Tests - FoodNet, United States, 2012-2014
MMWR March 13, 2015 Brand (Posted: Feb 25, 2015 0PM)

Maximizing the potential of real-time whole genome sequence-based Listeria surveillance to solve outbreaks and improve food safety
Brand (Posted: Feb 25, 2015 0PM)

National Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Diseases Surveillance (PulseNet)
Brand (Posted: Feb 25, 2015 0PM)

FOOD SAFETY: Keep America's food supply safe by preventing and responding to foodborne illness [PDF 175.33 KB]
2014 Highlights Brand (Posted: Jan 01, 2014 0AM)


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