Progress in malaria genomic surveillance using long-read sequencing.

Recent studies by Girgis et al. and de Cesare et al. promise to advance malaria genomic surveillance using inexpensive and portable long-read amplicon-sequencing technologies. These technologies allow rapid characterization of drug-resistance markers, antigenic diversity, and diagnostic target loci from dried blood spots, providing new tools for surveillance in endemic regions and informing interventions to combat malaria more effectively.