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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0120-4157</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Biomédica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Biomed.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0120-4157</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Nacional de Salud]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0120-41572020000600188</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7705/biomedica.5841</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Secuenciación del SARS-CoV-2: la iniciativa tecnológica para fortalecer los sistemas de alerta temprana ante emergencias de salud pública en Latinoamérica y el Caribe]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[SARS-CoV-2 sequencing: The technological initiative to strengthen early warning systems for public health emergencies in Latin America and the Caribbean]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Álvarez-Díaz]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Diego A.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Laiton-Donato]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Katherine]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Franco-Muñoz]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carlos]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Mercado-Reyes]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Marcela]]></given-names>
</name>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aaf"/>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Nacional de Salud  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Nacional de Salud  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Nacional de Salud  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af4">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Nacional de Salud  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>40</volume>
<fpage>188</fpage>
<lpage>197</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0120-41572020000600188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0120-41572020000600188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0120-41572020000600188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen La pandemia de COVID-19 causada por el SARS-CoV-2 es un problema de salud pública sin precedentes en los últimos 100 años, así como la respuesta centrada en la caracterización genómica del SARS-CoV-2 prácticamente en todas las regiones del planeta. Esta pandemia surgió durante la era de la epidemiología genómica impulsada por los continuos avances en la secuenciación de próxima generación. Desde su reciente aparición, la epidemiología genómica permitió la identificación precisa de nuevos linajes o especies de agentes patógenos y la reconstrucción de su variabilidad genética en tiempo real, lo que se hizo evidente en los brotes de influenza H1N1, MERS y SARS. Sin embargo, la escala global y descontrolada de esta pandemia ha generado una situación que obligó a utilizar de forma masiva herramientas de la epidemiología genómica como la rápida identificación del SARS-CoV-2 y el registro de nuevos linajes y su vigilancia activa en todo el mundo. Antes de la pandemia de COVID-19 la disponibilidad de datos genómicos de agentes patógenos circulantes en varios países de Latinoamérica y el Caribe era escasa o nula. Con la llegada del SARS-CoV-2 dicha situación cambió significativamente, aunque la cantidad de información disponible sigue siendo escasa y, en países como Colombia, Brasil, Argentina y Chile, la información genómica del SARS-CoV-2 provino principalmente de grupos de investigación en epidemiología genómica más que como producto de una política o programa de vigilancia en salud pública. Ello evidencia la necesidad de establecer políticas de salud pública orientadas a la implementación de la epidemiología genómica como herramienta para fortalecer los sistemas de vigilancia y alerta temprana frente a amenazas para la salud pública en la región.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is a public health problem on a scale unprecedented in the last 100 years, as has been the response focused on the rapid genomic characterization of SARS-CoV-2 in virtually all regions of the planet. This pandemic emerged during the era of genomic epidemiology, a science fueled by continued advances in next-generation sequencing. Since its recent appearance, genomic epidemiology included the precise identification of new lineages or species of pathogens and the reconstruction of their genetic variability in real time, evidenced in past outbreaks of influenza H1N1, MERS, and SARS. However, the global and uncontrolled scale of this pandemic created a scenario where genomic epidemiology was put into practice en masse, from the rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2 to the registration of new lineages and their active surveillance throughout the world. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the availability of genomic data on circulating pathogens in several Latin America and the Caribbean countries was scarce or nil. With the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, this scenario changed significantly, although the amount of available information remains scarce and, in countries such as Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, the genomic information of SARS-CoV-2 was obtained mainly by research groups in genomic epidemiology rather than the product of a public health surveillance policy or program. This indicates the need to establish public health policies aimed at implementing genomic epidemiology as a tool to strengthen surveillance and early warning systems against threats to public health in the region.]]></p></abstract>
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