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Publication Date: Oct 3, 2019

Advanced Molecular Detection Clips Content

• News
• Concepts / Comments
• Methods / Tools
• Evolution / Ecology / Populations
• Pathogenicity / Antimicrobial Resistance
• Detection / Diagnosis
• Epidemiology / Outbreaks / Transmission
• Antimicrobials / Vaccines / Interventions
• Host-Microbe Interactions

NEWS

• Q&A: BARDA Director Rick Bright Discusses New Programs, Focus on Diagnostics
  Johnson M. GenomeWeb, Sep 30, 2019.
• Plague Genomes Reveal How Pandemic Spread in 14th, 18th Centuries
  GenomeWeb, Oct 2, 2019.
• Bacteria are likely hiding in your household washing machine
  LaMotte S. CNN, Sep 28, 2019.
• A germ from a dog's mouth led to amputation. Researchers blamed a gene change
  AP, Los Angeles Times, Sep 26, 2019.
• With C. Auris Proliferating, NYSDOH Wadsworth Center to Fund Device Development for POC Tests
  Johnson M. 360dx, Sep 25, 2019.
• Tsunamis linked to spread of deadly fungal disease
  McGrath M. BBC News, Oct 2, 2019.
• Emerging parasitic disease mimics the symptoms of visceral leishmaniasis in people
  (news release) NIAID via EurekAlert, Oct 1, 2019.
• Error in Study Linking HIV Resistance Gene to Increased Mortality
  Makowski E. The Scientist, Sep 30, 2019.

CONCEPTS / COMMENTS

• Technology to advance infectious disease forecasting for outbreak management.
  George Dylan B et al. Nature communications 2019 Sep (1) 3932 
• Data standards may be wonky, but they will transform health care
  Mandl KD, Kohane IS. STAT, Oct 3, 2019.
• On the Emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in the Pacific Northwest: Ballast Tanks, Tsunamis, and Black Swans.
  Engelthaler David M et al. mBio 2019 Oct (5)
• ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA IN WILDLIFE: PERSPECTIVES ON TRENDS, ACQUISITION AND DISSEMINATION, DATA GAPS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS.
  Ramey Andrew M et al. Journal of wildlife diseases 2019 Sep
• How to meet your 'silent partner': tips for approaching editors at conferences.
  Yao Yixin et al. Genome biology 2019 Sep (1) 200
• Novelist Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a great science paper
  Savage V, Yeh P. Nature, Sep 26, 2019.

METHODS / TOOLS

• Evolution of biosequence search algorithms: a brief survey.
  Kucherov Gregory et al. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2019 Oct (19) 3547-3552
• Bit-parallel sequence-to-graph alignment.
  Rautiainen Mikko et al. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2019 Oct (19) 3599-3607
• Optimizing a Whole-Genome Sequencing Data Processing Pipeline for Precision Surveillance of Health Care-Associated Infections.
  Huang Weihua et al. Microorganisms 2019 Sep (10)
• Identifying Clusters of High Confidence Homologies in Multiple Sequence Alignments.
  Ali Raja Hashim et al. Molecular biology and evolution 2019 Oct (10) 2340-2351
• SHERLOCK: nucleic acid detection with CRISPR nucleases.
  Kellner Max J et al. Nature protocols 2019 Oct (10) 2986-3012
• Targeted isolation and cultivation of uncultivated bacteria by reverse genomics.
  Cross Karissa L et al. Nature biotechnology 2019 Sep
• Amplified fragment length polymorphism and whole genome sequencing: a comparison of methods in the investigation of a nosocomial outbreak with vancomycin resistant enterococci.
  Janes Victoria A et al. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control 2019 153
• Incorporating Statistical Test and Machine Intelligence Into Strain Typing of Staphylococcus haemolyticus Based on Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry.
  Chung Chia-Ru et al. Frontiers in microbiology 2019 2120
• Insights from the revised complete genome sequences of Acinetobacter baumannii strains AB307-0294 and ACICU belonging to global clones 1 and 2.
  Hamidian Mohammad et al. Microbial genomics 2019 Sep
• Resolving a clinical tuberculosis outbreak using palaeogenomic genome reconstruction methodologies.
  Jones Rhys et al. Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2019 Sep 101865
• A Fully Integrated Real-Time Detection, Diagnosis, and Control of Community Diarrheal Disease Clusters and Outbreaks (the INTEGRATE Project): Protocol for an Enhanced Surveillance System.
  McIntyre Kirsty Marie et al. JMIR research protocols 2019 Sep (9) e13941
• Evaluation of DNA Extraction Methods on Individual Helminth Egg and Larval Stages for Whole-Genome Sequencing
  Doyle SR, et al. Front Genet, Sep 20, 2019. 

EVOLUTION / ECOLOGY / POPULATIONS

• Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes
  Spyrou MA, et al. Nat Commun, Oct 2, 2019.
• Genetic diversity of respiratory enteroviruses and rhinoviruses in febrile adults, Singapore, 2007-2013.
  Linster Martin et al. Influenza and other respiratory viruses 2019 Sep
• Adenoviral Infections in Singapore: Should New Antiviral Therapies and Vaccines Be Adopted?
  Coleman Kristen K et al. The Journal of infectious diseases 2019 Sep
• Isolation and characterization of Akhmeta virus from wild caught rodents ( Apodemus spp.) in Georgia.
  Doty Jeffrey B et al. Journal of virology 2019 Sep 
• Emergence of the Asian lineage of Zika virus in Angola: an outbreak investigation.
  Hill Sarah C et al. The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2019 Oct (10) 1138-1147
• A scale-free analysis of the HIV-1 genome demonstrates multiple conserved regions of structural and functional importance.
  Skittrall Jordan P et al. PLoS computational biology 2019 Sep (9) e1007345
• Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus.
  Schmidt John Paul et al. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2019 Sep (1782) 20180337

PATHOGENICITY / ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

• Risk Factors for Long-Term Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Persistence-A Prospective Longitudinal Study.
  Correa-Martinez Carlos L et al. Microorganisms 2019 Sep (10)
• Characterization of the Microbial Resistome in Conventional and "Raised Without Antibiotics" Beef and Dairy Production Systems.
  Rovira Pablo et al. Frontiers in microbiology 2019 1980
• Large-scale genome analysis of bovine commensal Escherichia coli reveals that bovine-adapted E. coli lineages are serving as evolutionary sources of the emergence of human intestinal pathogenic strains.
  Arimizu Yoko et al. Genome research 2019 Sep (9) 1495-1505
• Campylobacter species prevalence, characterisation of antimicrobial resistance and analysis of whole-genome sequence of isolates from livestock and humans, Latvia, 2008 to 2016.
  Meistere Irena et al. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2019 Aug (31)
• Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Latent and Reactivated HIV-Infected Cells.
  Golumbeanu Monica et al. Cell reports 2018 04 (4) 942-950
• Human-to-Human Transmission of Influenza A(H3N2) Virus with Reduced Susceptibility to Baloxavir, Japan, February 2019.
  Takashita Emi et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2019 Nov (11)
• High frequency of drug resistance mutations in the HBV genome in ART-experienced HIV-coinfected patients in southwestern Nigeria.
  Akanbi Olusola Anuoluwapo et al. Antiviral therapy 2019 Sep
• Is the Bombali virus pathogenic in humans?
  Martell Henry J et al. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2019 Oct (19) 3553-3558

DETECTION / DIAGNOSIS

• Investigating Transfusion-Related Sepsis using Culture-Independent Metagenomic Sequencing.
  Crawford Emily et al. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019 Sep
• Identification of Gram negative non-fermentative bacteria: How hard can it be?
  Whistler Toni et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2019 Sep (9) e0007729 
• Machine Learning Predicts Accurately Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Resistance From Whole Genome Sequencing Data
  Deelder W, et al. Front Genet, Sep 26, 2019.
• One-step pentaplex real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for detection of zika, dengue, chikungunya, West nile viruses and a human housekeeping gene.
  Mishra Nischay et al. Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology 2019 Sep 44-50
• Rapid diagnosis of invasive candidiasis: ready for prime-time?
  Clancy Cornelius J et al. Current opinion in infectious diseases 2019 Sep 
• The Diagnosis of Fungal Neglected Tropical Diseases (Fungal NTDs) and the Role of Investigation and Laboratory Tests: An Expert Consensus Report.
  Hay Roderick et al. Tropical medicine and infectious disease 2019 Sep (4) 
• Discrimination of Aspergillus flavus from Aspergillus oryzae by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass-spectrometry.
  Hedayati Mohammad T et al. Mycoses 2019 Sep
• Non-Leishmania Parasite in Fatal Visceral Leishmaniasis-like Disease, Brazil
  Marayuma SR, et al. Emerg Infect Dis, 25(11) Nov 2019.
• A Case for Using Genomics and a Bioinformatics Pipeline to Develop Sensitive and Species-Specific PCR-Based Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Helminths
  Grant JR, et al. Front Genet, Sep 23, 2019. 

EPIDEMIOLOGY / OUTBREAKS / TRANSMISSION

• The washing machine as a reservoir for transmission of extended spectrum beta-lactamase (CTX-M-15)-producing Klebsiella oxytoca ST201 in newborns.
  Schmithausen Ricarda M et al. Applied and environmental microbiology 2019 Sep 
• Whole Genome Sequencing for Tracing Geographical Origin of Imported Cases of Human Brucellosis in Sweden.
  Sacchini Lorena et al. Microorganisms 2019 Sep (10)
• An outbreak of multiple genotypes of Listeria monocytogenes in New Zealand linked to contaminated ready-to-eat meats - a retrospective analysis using whole genome sequencing.
  Rivas Lucia et al. Letters in applied microbiology 2019 Sep
• Notes from the Field: Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Agbeni Associated with Consumption of Raw Cake Mix - Five States, 2018.
  Ladd-Wilson Stephen G et al. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2019 Aug (34) 751-752  
• Multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections linked to imported Maradol papayas - United States, December 2016-September 2017.
  Hassan R et al. Epidemiology and infection 2019 Sep e265  
• Listeriosis outbreak likely due to contaminated liver pâté consumed in a tavern, Austria, December 2018.
  Cabal Adriana et al. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2019 Sep (39)
• New HIV-1 circulating recombinant form 94: from phylogenetic detection of a large transmission cluster to prevention in the age of geosocial-networking apps in France, 2013 to 2017.
  Wirden Marc et al. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2019 Sep (39)
• Low prevalence of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance detected by a dried blood spot (DBS)-based next-generation sequencing (NGS) method in newly diagnosed individuals in Cameroon in the years 2015-16.
  Mbunkah Herbert A et al. The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2018 07 (7) 1917-1929
• High prevalence of norovirus GII.P16/GII.2 and chicken anemia virus in two acute gastroenteritis outbreaks in Huzhou, China.
  Li Y et al. Acta virologica 2019 (3) 328-332
• Rapid Identification and Investigation of an HIV Risk Network Among People Who Inject Drugs -Miami, FL, 2018.
  Tookes Hansel et al. AIDS and behavior 2019 Sep  

ANTIMICROBIALS / VACCINES / INTERVENTIONS

• A Quest of Great Importance-Developing a Broad Spectrum Escherichia coli Phage Collection.
  Kaczorowska Joanna et al. Viruses 2019 Sep (10)

HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

• The Need to Focus on Therapy Instead of Associations.
  Reid Gregor et al. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2019 327
• Regional Diversity of the Gastrointestinal Microbiome.
  Martinez-Guryn Kristina et al. Cell host & microbe 2019 09 (3) 314-324

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