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Are diagnostic and public health bacteriology ready to become branches of genomic medicine?

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Medicine, August 2011
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Title
Are diagnostic and public health bacteriology ready to become branches of genomic medicine?
Published in
Genome Medicine, August 2011
DOI 10.1186/gm269
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Authors

Mark J Pallen, Nicholas J Loman

Abstract

: Diagnostic medical bacteriology is a conservative discipline. When busy house officers scribble 'M, C & S' on a form, they are requesting two techniques - microscopy and culture of microorganisms - that date back to the late 17th and late 19th century, respectively. The third technique - antibiotic susceptibility testing - has changed little in a half a century. Relatively few front-line diagnostic bacteriology laboratories have embraced molecular methods; on my own campus, the hospital's medical microbiology department does not even possess a thermal cycler!And yet in the research arena, genome sequencing has transformed almost every corner of the biomedical sciences, including the study of bacterial pathogens Furthermore, over the past 5 years, high-throughput (or 'next-generation') sequencing technologies have delivered a step change in our ability to sequence microbial genomes 1. Since arriving in the market place, these technologies have experienced sustained technical improvement, which, twinned with lively competition between alternative platforms, has placed sequencing in a state of 'permanent revolution'.At last, it seems that genomics has come up with a game-changer, a killer app, a disruptive technology that even those long wedded to the Gram stain and the agar plate can no longer ignore. Does this mean we are on the brink of a revolution in diagnostic and public health microbiology, in which high-throughput sequencing usurps the traditional 'M, C & S', or will the discipline's innate conservatism stand firm for decades to come?

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Sweden 1 2%
South Africa 1 2%
Unknown 41 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 36%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 23%
Other 3 7%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Other 8 18%
Unknown 2 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 9%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 3 7%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2017.
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#7,205,554
of 25,374,917 outputs
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#1,157
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Outputs of similar age
#39,534
of 134,460 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Medicine
#9
of 15 outputs
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