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  • Public Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Microbiology

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the risk of zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases.
  • Antimicrobial resistance, vector-borne, foodborne, and waterborne diseases continue to cause significant morbidity and mortality.
  • Factors like population growth and global travel increase the frequency of infectious disease outbreaks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the limitations of current surveillance methods for infectious diseases.
  • To highlight the need for innovative, user-friendly technologies for pathogen detection.
  • To explore the potential of metagenomics for enhanced infectious disease surveillance.

Main Methods:

  • Review of lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Discussion of challenges in current infectious disease surveillance.
  • Introduction of metagenomics as a potential solution for pathogen detection.

Main Results:

  • Current surveillance methods struggle to keep pace with the diversity and scale of microbial pathogens.
  • Existing methods are often resource-intensive, limiting scalability.
  • Metagenomics offers a promising approach for simultaneous identification of diverse microorganisms.

Conclusions:

  • Enhanced surveillance is crucial for informed public health decisions.
  • Innovative technologies are needed to overcome limitations in pathogen detection.
  • Metagenomics-enabled surveillance can improve the detection of known and emerging pathogens.