Journal
TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 115, Issue 1, Pages 3-5Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/traa086
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Funding
- University of Glasgow
- Scottish Funding Council
- Global Challenges Research Fund [EP/S51584X/1]
- Wellcome Trust [207569, 110330, 204820]
- Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Small Grant 2017 [GR000892]
- Global Challenges Research Fund
- Scottish Funding Council [EP/S51584X/1]
- European Research Council [680088]
- MRC [MR/R025649/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The editorial emphasizes the importance of building genetic and genomic technology capacity in low and middle income countries to improve disease diagnostics and provide feedback to affected communities. The authors call on the wider tropical medicine community to embrace these methods, help build capacity, and ultimately benefit communities affected by endemic infectious diseases.
Improvements in genetic and genomic technology have enabled field-deployable molecular laboratories and these have been deployed in a variety of epidemics that capture headlines. In this editorial, we highlight the importance of building physical and personnel capacity in low and middle income countries to deploy these technologies to improve diagnostics, understand transmission dynamics and provide feedback to endemic communities on actionable timelines. We describe our experiences with molecular field research on schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis and rabies and urge the wider tropical medicine community to embrace these methods and help build capacity to benefit communities affected by endemic infectious diseases.
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