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Tsang et al. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Apr 24;e0190022. Genomic epidemiology can facilitate an understanding of evolutionary history and transmission dynamics of a severe acute respiratory

Arman Edalatmand & Andrew G McArthur. 2023. Database, doi: 10.1093/database/baad023. Scientific literature is published at a rate that makes manual data extraction a highly time-consuming

Alcock et al. 2023. Nucleic Acids Res Oct 20, 2022:gkac920. (online ahead of print) The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; card.mcmaster.ca) combines the Antibiotic Resistance

Guitor et al. 2022. Microbiome 10(1):136. Background: Probiotic use in preterm infants can mitigate the impact of antibiotic exposure and reduce rates of certain illnesses;

The Dataharmonizer: a Tool for Faster Data Harmonization, Validation, Aggregation, and Analysis of Pathogen Genomics Contextual Information
Gill et al. 2022. Preprints 10.20944/preprints202206.0335.v1 Pathogen genomics is a critical tool for public health surveillance, infection control, outbreak investigations, as well as research. In

Raphenya et al. Scientific Data volume 9, Article number: 341 (2022). Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is a key tool in identifying and characterising disease-associated bacteria

Rooney et al. 2022 Jun 1;e0002222. Short-read sequencing can provide detection of multiple genomic determinants of antimicrobial resistance from single bacterial genomes and metagenomic samples.

Kim et al. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2022 May 25;e0017921. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis that poses a great threat to modern medicine.

Enabling genomic island prediction and comparison in multiple genomes to investigate bacterial evolution and outbreaks
Bertelli et al. Microb Genom. 2022 May;8(5). doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000818. Outbreaks of virulent and/or drug-resistant bacteria have a significant impact on human health and major economic