Tracking the emergence and spread of pathogen variants is an important component of monitoring infectious disease outbreaks. To that end, accurately estimating the number and prevalence of pathogen variants in a population requires carefully designed surveillance programs. However, current approaches to calculating the number of pathogen samples needed for effective surveillance often do not account for the various processes that can bias which infections are detected and which samples are ultimately characterized as a specific variant.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10213798/

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pathogen variants  

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infectious disease  pathogen genomics  pathogen variants  sample size calculations  SARS-CoV-2  variants of concern  variant surveillance  

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