PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sarah L. Baines
AU  - Anders Gonçalves da Silva
AU  - Glen Carter
AU  - Amy V. Jennison
AU  - Irani Rathnayake
AU  - Rikki M. Graham
AU  - Vitali Sintchenko
AU  - Qinning Wang
AU  - Rebecca J. Rockett
AU  - Verlaine J. Timms
AU  - Elena Martinez
AU  - Susan Ballard
AU  - Takehiro Tomita
AU  - Nicole Isles
AU  - Kristy A. Horan
AU  - William Pitchers
AU  - Timothy P. Stinear
AU  - Deborah A. Williamson
AU  - Benjamin P. Howden
AU  - Communicable Diseases Genomics Network (CDGN)
AU  - Torsten Seemann
TI  - Complete microbial genomes for public health in Australia and Southwest Pacific
AID  - 10.1101/829663
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 829663
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/11/05/829663.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/11/05/829663.full
AB  - Complete genomes of microbial pathogens are essential for the phylogenomic analyses that increasingly underpin core public health lab activities. Here, we present complete genomes of pathogen strains of regional importance to the Southwest Pacific and Australia. These enrich the catalogue of globally available complete genomes for public health while providing valuable strains to regional public health labs.Announcement Whole-genome sequence (WGS) data is increasingly important in public health microbiology (1–4). The data can be used to replicate many of the basic bacterial sub-typing approaches, as well as support epidemiological investigations, such as surveillance and outbreak investigation (5–7). The appeal of WGS data comes from the promise of a single workflow to process all microbial pathogens that can provide easily portable data that promotes deeper integration of surveillance and investigation efforts across jurisdictions. This promise is leading to a concerted effort to move microbial public health to a primarily genome-based workflow at numerous jurisdictions (8–10), including Australia (11).