Advances in Genomic Surveillance of Pathogens
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biosurveillance; infectious diseases; wastewater-based sequencing; epigenomic signature identification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pathogen surveillance in environmental and clinical samples is evolving alongside genomic sequencing technology. Before sequencing, pathogens were tested individually using polymerase chain reaction or ELISA. With genomics, we can now detect multiple pathogens within a sample based on its DNA or RNA content and identify when a microbial community has been disrupted. We can now even assess the human epigenomic or transcriptomic response to infections and diagnose based on host signatures associated with viral or bacterial pathogens. Several technologies have been utilized and optimized for clinical and environmental surveillance, including targeted and untargeted methods focusing on viruses, bacteria, fungi, or the host. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the utilization of genomics surveillance for pathogens has exponentially risen, along with several new technologies making surveillance easier and cheaper.
In this Special Issue, we would like to invite submissions of original research or review articles on any topic related to “Advances in Genomic Surveillance of Pathogens”. This Special Issue addresses all kinds of research pushing the boundaries of the state of the art for pathogen surveillance in clinical and environmental applications. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Rachel R. Spurbeck
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biosurveillance
- pathogen detection
- host response
- epigenomics
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- viromics
- microbiome analysis
- shotgun metagenomics
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