Advanced Molecular Detection Clips Content (Published on 05/05/2022)
NEWS
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South Africa Likely to See Fifth COVID Wave
Fiore K. MedPage Today, Apr 27, 2022. -
The Vanishing Variants: Lessons from Gamma, Iota and Mu
Anthes E. New York Times, May 4, 2022. -
Virus mutations aren’t slowing down. New omicron subvariant proves it
Aschenbach J. Washington Post, May 1, 2022. -
More uniformly infectious, more treatable, more genetically predictable: How coronavirus is getting closer to flu
Molteni M. STAT, May 3, 2022. -
Subvariants fuel COVID-19 rises in Africa and the Americas
Schnirring L. CIDRAP, May 4, 2022. -
COVID vaccines need to be evolving much faster
Topol E. Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2022. -
An mRNA vaccine with a twist—it copies itself—protects against COVID-19
Cohen J. Science, Apr 29, 2022. -
Nose Spray Vaccines Could Quash COVID Virus Variants
Broadfoot M. Scientific American, May 3, 2022. -
Record avian flu outbreak is threatening North America’s birds. Is the virus here to stay?
Stokstad E. Science, Apr 26, 2022. -
The gene-edited pig heart given to a dying patient was infected with a pig virus
Regalado A. MIT Tech Rev, May 4, 2022. -
Risky ‘gain-of-function’ studies need stricter guidance, say US researchers
Kozlov M. Nature, May 3, 2022.
EVENTS / TRAINING / WEB RESOURCES
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Climbing the ladder of infectiousness
(blog post) Topol E. Ground Truths, May 4, 2022. -
Host Genomics and COVID-19: Two Years Later
(blog post) Drzymalla E, et al. Genomics and Precision Health (CDC), May 3, 2022. -
Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Variants
FDA, May 5, 2022.
CONCEPTS / COMMENTS
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From outbreaks to endemic disease
Antolin MF. Science, Apr 28, 2022. -
COVID-19 Vaccination-Becoming Part of the New Normal.
Marks Peter et al. JAMA 2022 5
METHODS / TOOLS
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phastSim: Efficient simulation of sequence evolution for pandemic-scale datasets.
De Maio Nicola et al. PLoS computational biology 2022 4 (4) e1010056 -
Whokaryote: distinguishing eukaryotic and prokaryotic contigs in metagenomes based on gene structure.
Pronk Lotte J U et al. Microbial genomics 2022 5 (5) -
BamToCov, an efficient toolkit for sequence coverage calculations.
Birolo Giovanni et al. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2022 2 (9) 2617-8 -
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 mutations and variants through the COG-UK-Mutation Explorer.
Wright Derek W et al. Virus evolution 2022 5 (1) veac023
EVOLUTION / ECOLOGY / POPULATIONS
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Assessment of the Transmission Dynamics of Clostridioides difficile in a Farm Environment Reveals the Presence of a New Toxigenic Strain Connected to Swine Production.
Alves Frederico et al. Frontiers in microbiology 2022 5 858310 -
Genomic evolution of the Coronaviridae family.
Zmasek Christian M et al. Virology 2022 4 123-133 -
Continued Emergence and Evolution of Omicron in South Africa: New BA.4 and BA.5 lineages
Tegally H, et al. medRxiv, May 2, 2022. -
Overlapping Delta and Omicron Outbreaks: Dynamic Panel Data.
Lundberg Alexander L et al. JMIR public health and surveillance 2022 5 -
Genome-wide diversity of Zika virus: Exploring spatio-temporal dynamics to guide a new nomenclature proposal.
Seabra Sofia G et al. Virus evolution 2022 4 (1) veac029
PATHOGENICITY / ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
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Mobility of antimicrobial resistance across serovars and disease presentations in non-typhoidal Salmonella from animals and humans in Vietnam.
Bloomfield Samuel et al. Microbial genomics 2022 5 (5) -
Mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 RNA dependent RNA polymerase confer resistance to remdesivir by distinct mechanisms.
Stevens Laura J et al. Science translational medicine 2022 4 eabo0718 -
SARS-CoV-2 Point Mutation and Deletion Spectra and Their Association with Different Disease Outcomes.
Martínez-González Brenda et al. Microbiology spectrum 2022 3 (2) e0022122 -
Evolution of the human pathogenic lifestyle in fungi.
Rokas Antonis et al. Nature microbiology 2022 5 (5) 607-619
DETECTION / DIAGNOSIS
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Selective Whole-Genome Amplification as a Tool to Enrich Specimens with Low Treponema pallidum Genomic DNA Copies for Whole-Genome Sequencing.
Thurlow Charles M et al. mSphere 2022 5 e0000922 -
SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics revealed by wastewater sequencing analysis and deconvolution
Schumann VF, et al. medRxiv, May 3, 2022. -
Quantifying the relationship between sub-population wastewater samples and community-wide SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence
Smith T, et al. medRxiv, May 1, 2022. -
Making Waves: Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in an Endemic Future
Wu F, et al. Water Res, May 3, 2022. -
Inactivation and Recovery of High Quality RNA From Positive SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Tests Suitable for Whole Virus Genome Sequencing
Macori G, et al. Front Public Health, May 3, 2022. -
SARS-CoV-2 variant Delta rapidly displaced variant Alpha in the United States and led to higher viral loads.
Bolze Alexandre et al. Cell reports. Medicine 2022 4 (3) 100564 -
Identification of Omicron-Delta Coinfections Using PCR-Based Genotyping.
Roychoudhury Pavitra et al. Microbiology spectrum 2022 5 e0060522 -
Making genomic surveillance deliver: A lineage classification and nomenclature system to inform rabies elimination.
Campbell Kathryn et al. PLoS pathogens 2022 5 (5) e1010023 -
Validation of a multilocus genotyping scheme for subtyping Cryptosporidium parvum for epidemiological purposes.
Robinson Guy et al. Food and waterborne parasitology 2022 5 e00151 -
Nationwide Surveillance of Pfhrp2 Exon 2 Diversity in Plasmodium falciparum Circulating in Symptomatic Malaria Patients Living in Ghana.
Bredu Dorcas G et al. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2022 5
EPIDEMIOLOGY / OUTBREAKS / TRANSMISSION
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The need for linked genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2.
Colijn Caroline et al. Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada 2022 4 (4) 131-139 -
Introduction and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7, Alpha variant, in Denmark.
Michaelsen Thomas Y et al. Genome medicine 2022 5 (1) 47 -
Comparative transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 variants Delta and Alpha in New England, USA.
Earnest Rebecca et al. Cell reports. Medicine 2022 4 (4) 100583 -
Mapping the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants on a university campus
Weil AA, et al. medRxiv, Apr 28, 2022. -
A systematic molecular epidemiology screen reveals numerous HIV-1 superinfections in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study.
Chaudron Sandra E et al. The Journal of infectious diseases 2022 4
ANTIMICROBIALS / VACCINES / INTERVENTIONS
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SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell epitope repertoire in convalescent and mRNA-vaccinated individuals.
Lang-Meli Julia et al. Nature microbiology 2022 4 (5) 675-679 -
A Pan-Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate: Nine Amino Acid Substitutions in the ORF1ab Gene Attenuate 99% of 365 Unique Coronaviruses: A Comparative Effectiveness Research Study
Luellen E. bioRxiv, Apr 28, 2022.
HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
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A Phenome-Wide Association Study of genes associated with COVID-19 severity reveals shared genetics with complex diseases in the Million Veteran Program.
Verma Anurag et al. PLoS genetics 2022 4 (4) e1010113 -
BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron infection
Cao Y, et al. bioRxiv, May 2, 2022. -
Single-cell transcriptomics reveal a unique memory-like NK cell subset that accumulates with ageing and correlates with disease severity in COVID-19.
Guo Chuang et al. Genome medicine 2022 5 (1) 46 -
Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies New Risk Loci for Progression of Schistosomiasis Among the Chinese Population.
Zhou Miao et al. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2022 5 871545


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