From the battlefield to the bedside: Supporting warfighter and civilian health with the “ART” of whole genome sequencing for antibiotic resistance and outbreak investigations

Emil Lesho, Xiaoxu Lin, Robert Clifford, Erik Snesrud, Fatma Onmus-Leone, Lakshmi Appalla, Ana Ong, Rosslyn Maybank, Lindsey Nielsen, Yoon Kwak, Mary Hinkle, John Turco, Juan A. Marin, Sally Hooks, Stacy Matthews, Stephen Hyland, Jered Little, Paige Waterman, Patrick McGann

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Abstract

Awareness, responsiveness, and throughput characterize an approach for enhancing the clinical impact of whole genome sequencing for austere environments and for large geographically dispersed health systems. This Department of Defense approach is informing interagency efforts linking antibiograms of multidrug-resistant organisms to their genome sequences in a public database.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)621-624
Number of pages4
JournalMilitary Medicine
Volume181
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2016
Externally publishedYes

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