An appeal for strengthening genomic pathogen surveillance to improve pandemic preparedness and infection prevention: the German perspective.

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"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Partly funded by “the National University Medicine Research Network on Covid-19”, “NaFoUniMedCovid19” (Grant number: 01KX2121): GenSurv (Genomic Pathogen Surveillance and Translational Research) and MolTraX (Molecular Surveillance and Infection Chain Tracing for Local Public Health Authorities). Partly funded by “Integrierte Genomische Suveillance von Zoonoseerregern (IGS-Zoo)” (Grant number: ZMVI1-2518FSB706). Partly funded by “Erregerübergreifende Konzeption, Etablierung und Evaluation der Komponenten einer integrierten molekularen Surveillance” MOH (Grant number: ZMI5-2522DAT400)."