Accelerating genomics-based surveillance for COVID-19 response in Africa

Affiliations

¹ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa W21K19, Ethiopia.
² South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁵ African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.

Sofonias K Tessema et al. Lancet Microbe. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;1(6):e227-e228.

doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30117-8. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

¹ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa W21K19, Ethiopia.
² South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁵ African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.

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