Tag: pathogen surveillance
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Collaboration for Greater Impact: IPSN Global Partners Forum 2025 in Cape Town
Introduction: A milestone in pathogen surveillance collaboration From October 27 to 29, 2025, Cape Town hosted a pivotal gathering that underscored a simple but powerful idea: collaboration accelerates public health impact. The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) Global Partners Forum and the PHA4GE Conference brought together more than 270 scientists, policy-makers, funders and public health…
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Collaboration for Greater Impact: IPSN Global Partners Forum 2025 Highlights
Strength in Collaboration: A Global Meeting in Cape Town The third International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) Global Partners Forum, held in Cape Town, South Africa, from October 27–29, 2025, brought together more than 270 scientists, policy-makers, funders, and public health experts from around the world. This gathering underscored a central truth in infectious disease surveillance:…
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NEBNext Flu A Integrated Indexing Primer Module: Advancing Influenza A Surveillance and Sequencing with Oxford Nanopore Technologies
New NEBNext Flu A Integrated Indexing Primer Module Drives Influenza A Surveillance Forward The biotechnology landscape saw a significant update as New England Biolabs (NEB) released the NEBNext Flu A Integrated Indexing Primer Module, a tool designed to streamline high-throughput sequencing of Influenza A on Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) platforms. This advancement is aimed at…
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ICMR Study Finds 1 in 9 Tested Positive for Infectious Disease Across 450k Samples
Overview: Large-Scale ICMR Lab Network Detects Pathogens in 11.1% of Tests In a sweeping effort to identify viral infections of public health significance, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) analyzed samples from a network of laboratories across the country. The study examined around 450,000 patients, revealing that about 11.1% carried detectable pathogens. This translates…