Advanced Molecular Detection Clips Content (Published on 12/10/2020)
NEWS
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2021: research and medical trends in a post-pandemic world
May M. Nat Med, Dec 7, 2020. -
Sequencing-Based Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Testing Gaining Momentum
Johnson M. GenomeWeb,Dec 9, 2020. -
Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test
Cohen J. Science, Dec 7, 2020. -
Canadian Consortium Launches COVID Cloud to Support Molecular Research
GenomeWeb, Dec 1, 2020. -
Meet the scientists investigating the origins of the COVID pandemic
Mallapaty S. Nature, Dec 2, 2020. -
Australian scientists develop genome sequencing to trace COVID-19 cases within four hours
Reuters, Dec 9, 2020. -
Mass testing for COVID-19
Burki T. Lancet Microbe, Dec 1, 2020. -
Covid blood test can predict patient survival chances
Geddes L. The Guardian, Dec 7, 2020. -
A gamble pays off in "spectacular success": How the leading coronavirus vaccines made it to the finish line
Johnson CY. Washington Post, Dec 6, 2020. -
How kids' immune systems can evade COVID
Nogrady B. Nature, Dec 10, 2020.
POLICY
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Joining European Scientific Forces to Face Pandemics
Vasconcelos MH, et al. Trends Microbiol, 2020 Nov 6;S0966-842X(20)30270-5.
CONCEPTS / COMMENTS
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The Next Million Names for Archaea and Bacteria
Pallen MJ, et al. Trends Microbiol, Nov 14;S0966-842X(20)30271-7. -
The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2020.
Hufsky Franziska et al. Viruses 2020 Dec (12) -
What Can COVID-19 Teach Us about Using AI in Pandemics?
Laudanski Krzysztof et al. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 2020 Dec (4) -
Opinion: Teaching infectious disease epidemiology during a pandemic
Lopman B. AJC.com, Dec 5, 2020. -
Development and dissemination of infectious disease dynamic transmission models during the COVID-19 pandemic: what can we learn from other pathogens and how can we move forward?
Becker AD, et al. Lancet Digital Health, Dec 7, 2020. -
Faecal microbiota transplantation: more screening for old and new pathogens
Hohmann EL. Lancet Infect Dis, Dec 1, 2020.
METHODS / TOOLS
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iGenomics: Comprehensive DNA sequence analysis on your Smartphone.
Palatnick A, et al. Gigascience 2020 Dec 7;9(12):giaa138. -
Combining structure and genomics to understand antimicrobial resistance.
Tunstall Tanushree et al. Computational and structural biotechnology journal 2020 3377-3394 -
Translatability of WGS typing results can simplify data exchange for surveillance and control of Listeria monocytogenes .
Lüth Stefanie et al. Microbial genomics 2020 Dec -
Recommendations for the introduction of metagenomic high-throughput sequencing in clinical virology, part I: Wet lab procedure.
López-Labrador F Xavier et al. Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology 2020 Nov 104691 -
Next generation sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes: challenges, applications and opportunities.
Chiara Matteo et al. Briefings in bioinformatics 2020 Dec -
A rapid, cost-effective tailed amplicon method for sequencing SARS-CoV-2.
Gohl Daryl M et al. BMC genomics 2020 Dec (1) 863 -
Analytical validity of nanopore sequencing for rapid SARS-CoV-2 genome analysis
Bull RA, et al. Nat Commun 2020 Dec 9;11(1):6272. -
MINERVA: A Facile Strategy for SARS-CoV-2 Whole-Genome Deep Sequencing of Clinical Samples.
Chen Chen et al. Molecular cell 2020 Nov -
Population variability in the generation and selection of T-cell repertoires.
Sethna Zachary et al. PLoS computational biology 2020 Dec (12) e1008394
EVOLUTION / ECOLOGY / POPULATIONS
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Successive epidemic waves of cholera in South Sudan between 2014 and 2017: a descriptive epidemiological study.
Jones Forrest K et al. The Lancet. Planetary health 2020 Dec (12) e577-e587 -
Molecular Epidemiology of Rotavirus A Strains Pre- and Post-Vaccine (Rotarix ® ) Introduction in Mozambique, 2012-2019: Emergence of Genotypes G3P[4] and G3P[8].
João Eva D et al. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 2020 Aug (9) -
Evolution and rapid spread of a reassortant A(H3N2) virus that predominated the 2017-2018 influenza season.
Potter Barney I et al. Virus evolution 2019 Jul (2) vez046
PATHOGENICITY / ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
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Extremely drug-resistant NDM-9-producing ST147 Klebsiella pneumoniae causing infections in Italy, May 2020.
Falcone Marco et al. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2020 Dec (48) -
Emergence of a novel urogenital-tropic Neisseria meningitidis.
Bazan Jose A et al. Current opinion in infectious diseases 2020 Dec -
Mutations in dnaA and a cryptic interaction site increase drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Hicks Nathan D et al. PLoS pathogens 2020 Nov (11) e1009063 -
Genomic epidemiology of Escherichia coli isolates from a tertiary referral center in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Tegha Gerald et al. Microbial genomics 2020 Dec -
Comparative genome analyses of Mycobacteroides immunogenum reveals two potential novel subspecies.
Choo Siew Woh et al. Microbial genomics 2020 Dec -
Identification of risk factors and hotspots of antibiotic resistance along the food chain using next-generation sequencing.
et al. EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority 2020 Nov (Suppl 1) e181107 -
Molecular and epidemiological characterisation of toxigenic and non-toxigenic C. diphtheriae , C. belfantii and C. ulcerans isolates identified in Spain from 2014 to 2019
Hoefer A, et al. J Clin Microbiol 2020 Dec 9;JCM.02410-20 -
A Klebsiella pneumoniae ST307 outbreak clone from Germany demonstrates features of extensive drug resistance, hypermucoviscosity, and enhanced iron acquisition
Heiden SE, et al. Genome Med 2020 Dec 9;12(1):113. -
Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity.
Volz Erik et al. Cell 2020 Nov -
No current evidence for risk of vaccine-driven virulence evolution in SARS-CoV-2
Miller IF, Metcalf JE. medRxiv, Dec 3, 2020. -
Multilocus Sequence Typing Reveals Clonality of Fluconazole-Nonsusceptible Candida tropicalis: A Study From Wuhan to the Global
Wang Q, et al. Front Microbiol 2020 Nov 17;11:554249. -
Molecular surveillance of the Plasmodium vivax multidrug resistance 1 gene in Peru between 2006 and 2015.
Villena Fredy E et al. Malaria journal 2020 Dec (1) 450 -
A metagenomic glimpse into the gut of wild and domestic animals: Quantification of antimicrobial resistance and more.
Skarzynska Magdalena et al. PloS one 2020 (12) e0242987
DETECTION / DIAGNOSIS
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Leapfrogging laboratories: the promise and pitfalls of high-tech solutions for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in low-income settings.
Okeke Iruka N et al. BMJ global health 2020 Dec (12) -
SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected in blood products from patients with COVID-19 is not associated with infectious virus
Andersson MI, et al. Wellcome Open Res 2020 Jul 29;5:181. -
Comparison of 12 Molecular Detection Assays for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Matsumura Yasufumi et al. The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD 2020 Nov -
Natural SARS-CoV-2 infections, including virus isolation, among serially tested cats and dogs in households with confirmed human COVID-19 cases in Texas, USA.
Hamer Sarah A et al. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2020 12 -
Subtype diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with diffusion MRI.
Bizzi Alberto et al. Annals of neurology 2020 Dec -
Detection of swine influenza virus in nasal specimens by reverse transcription-loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP).
Bakre Abhijeet A et al. Journal of virological methods 2020 Nov 114015 -
Assessment of next generation amplicon sequencing of the beta-giardin gene for the detection of Giardia duodenalis assemblages and mixed infections.
Maloney Jenny G et al. Food and waterborne parasitology 2020 Dec e00098
EPIDEMIOLOGY / OUTBREAKS / TRANSMISSION
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An outbreak of human listeriosis associated with frozen sweet corn consumption: Investigations in the UK.
McLauchlin Jim et al. International journal of food microbiology 2020 Nov 108994 -
Genomic epidemiology of nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae from King County, Washington State, USA between July 2018 and May 2019.
Lingzi Xiaoli et al. Microb Genom 2020 12 (12) -
Timing the SARS-CoV-2 Index Case in Hubei Province.
Pekar Jonathan et al. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2020 Nov -
Molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 clusters caused by asymptomatic cases in Anhui Province, China.
Yuan Yuan et al. BMC infectious diseases 2020 Dec (1) 930 -
Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Introductions Shaped the Early Outbreak in Central Eastern Europe: Comparing Hungarian Data to a Worldwide Sequence Data-Matrix.
Kemenesi Gábor et al. Viruses 2020 Dec (12) -
Emergence and spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020.
Hodcroft Emma B et al. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Nov -
Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Boston highlights the impact of superspreading events
Lemieux JE, et al. Science, Dec 10, 2020. -
Dynamics of HIV-1 Molecular Networks Reveal Effective Control of Large Transmission Clusters in an Area Affected by an Epidemic of Multiple HIV Subtypes.
Liu M et al. Front Microbiol. 2020 Nov 13;11:604993. -
HCV transmission among MSM in Amsterdam: external introductions may complicate micro-elimination efforts
Koopsen JL, et al. Clin Infect Dis 2020 Dec 8;ciaa1830. -
Identification of a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 and Neurosyphilis Cluster in Vermont.
Devika Singh et al. Clin Infect Dis 2020 12 (9) e3244-e3249
ANTIMICROBIALS / VACCINES / INTERVENTIONS
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New Technologies for Influenza Vaccines.
Rockman Steven et al. Microorganisms 2020 Nov (11) -
Reverse genetics for influenza B viruses and recent advances in vaccine development.
Cardenas-Garcia Stivalis et al. Current opinion in virology 2020 Nov 191-202 -
Re-assembly of nineteenth-century smallpox vaccine genomes reveals the contemporaneous use of horsepox and horsepox-related viruses in the USA.
Brinkmann Annika et al. Genome biology 2020 Dec (1) 286 -
Impact of vaginal microbiome communities on HIV antiretroviral-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug metabolism.
Cheu Ryan K et al. PLoS pathogens 2020 Dec (12) e1009024 -
Periodic screening of donor faeces with a quarantine period to prevent transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms during faecal microbiota transplantation: a retrospective cohort study.
Vendrik Karuna E W et al. The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2020 Dec
HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
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Host genetics and infectious disease: new tools, insights and translational opportunities.
Kwok Andrew J et al. Nature reviews. Genetics 2020 Dec -
Polyclonality, Shared Strains, and Convergent Evolution in Chronic CF S. aureus Airway Infection.
Long Dustin R et al. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2020 Dec -
A time-resolved proteomic and diagnostic map characterizes COVID-19 disease progression and predicts outcome
Demichev V, et al. medRxiv, Nov 12, 2020. -
Characterization of a hospital-based gastroenteritis outbreak caused by GII.6 norovirus in Jinshan, China.
Zhang X F et al. Epidemiology and infection 2020 Dec e289 -
Identification of unrecognized host factors promoting HIV-1 latency.
Li Zichong et al. PLoS pathogens 2020 Dec (12) e1009055
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