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Amadou Dicko1, Seydou Golo Barro2, N Siourimè Somda3
1Central Reference Laboratory, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Abstract:
Sub-Saharan Africa suffers devastating animal health losses exceeding $20 billion each year. By combining metagenomics with artificial intelligence (AI), a promising path emerges for faster diagnostics and proactive disease prediction. Our PRISMA-guided review of 1,225 studies reveals that metagenomics achieves 94.2% diagnostic sensitivity (compared to 67.3% with conventional methods), while AI dramatically shortens turnaround from 48-72h to just 4-8h, offering a valuable 14-18 day early warning window for epizootics.
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