Molecular Genetic Monitoring and Digital Transformation Technologies in Modern Epidemiology
- Authors: Akimkin V.G.1, Khafizov K.F.1, Dubodelov D.V.1, Voronin E..1, Cherkashina A.S.1, Ugleva S..1, Stratulat D.V.1, Samsonov A.А.1
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Affiliations:
- Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
- Issue: Vol 78, No 4 (2023)
- Pages: 363-369
- Section: EPIDEMIOLOGY: CURRENT ISSUES
- URL: https://vestnikramn.spr-journal.ru/jour/article/view/13672
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.15690/vramn13672
- ID: 13672
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Abstract
The pandemic of a new coronavirus infection has become a serious challenge for the health system of all countries, so as of May 2023, 766 million confirmed cases of the disease and more than 6.9 million deaths have been registered in the world. More than 22 million cases and 398 thousand deaths from a new coronavirus infection have been registered in the Russian Federation. The rapidly changing epidemiological situation necessitated the systematization of the material for analytical work. The need to create special tools for aggregating an array of heterogeneous information has become obvious. The high rate of accumulation of mutations in the genome of the pathogen made it necessary to study circulating genovariants both from the standpoint of their escape from postmorbid and postvaccinal immunity, and from the point of view of the characteristics of the epidemic process caused by individual variants of the virus and their significance for practical health care and the organization of antiepidemic measures. The significant heterogeneity in terms of population density, geographical and economic conditions of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation necessitated the organization of work on the implementation of continuous molecular genetic monitoring of the variability of the COVID-19 pathogen. The active development of computing technologies and the challenges faced by the epidemiological surveillance system during the COVID-19 pandemic created the prerequisites for the rapid development of the process of digital transformation in epidemiology. Three platforms were created on the basis of Central Research Institute of Epidemiology — the Russian data aggregation system VGARus, SOLAR and an analytical platform for analyzing the epidemiological situation regarding the new coronavirus infection based on the Superset program, which were the main tools for epidemiological monitoring of the new coronavirus infection.
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Vasily G. G. Akimkin
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Email: vgakimkin@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4228-9044
SPIN-code: 4038-7455
MD, PhD, Professor, Academician of the RAS
Russian Federation, 3a Novogireevskaya Str., Moscow, 111123Kamil F. Khafizov
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Email: khafizov@cmd.su
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5524-0296
SPIN-code: 9082-5749
PhD in Biology
Russian Federation, 3a Novogireevskaya Str., Moscow, 111123Dmitry V. Dubodelov
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Email: dubodelov@cmd.su
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3093-5731
SPIN-code: 4860-7909
MD, PhD, Senior Research Associate
Russian Federation, 3a Novogireevskaya Str., Moscow, 111123Evgeny M. Voronin
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Email: emvoronin@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5925-7757
SPIN-code: 8153-8179
Russian Federation, 3a Novogireevskaya Str., Moscow, 111123
Anna S. Cherkashina
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Email: cherkashina@pcr.ms
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7970-7495
SPIN-code: 7854-7358
PhD in Chemistry
Russian Federation, 3a Novogireevskaya Str., Moscow, 111123Svetlana V. Ugleva
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Author for correspondence.
Email: uglevas@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1322-0155
SPIN-code: 8840-5814
MD, PhD, Professor
Russian Federation, 3a Novogireevskaya Str., Moscow, 111123Denis V. Stratulat
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Email: stratylat@cmd.su
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0988-4466
Russian Federation, 3a Novogireevskaya Str., Moscow, 111123
Alexander А. Samsonov
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Email: samsonov@cmd.su
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-8036-1883
Russian Federation, 3a Novogireevskaya Str., Moscow, 111123
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