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Publication Date: Nov 21, 2019

Advanced Molecular Detection Clips Content

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

NEWS

• Mailing free home HIV tests helps detect more infections
  Tanner L. AP, Nov 18, 2019.

POLICY

• Sequence and destroy: the quest to eliminate the last stocks of deadly rinderpest virus.
  Butler Declan et al. Nature 2019 08 (7767) 18

CONCEPTS / COMMENTS

• Precision Medicine and Mysteries in Clinical Microbiology: Rationalizing Epidemiology, Genotype and Phenotype to Guide Therapeutics.
  Perez Federico et al. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2019 Nov
• Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Dysbiosis - Predictable Risks.
  Blaser Martin J et al. The New England journal of medicine 2019 Nov (21) 2064-2066
• Biomarkers of Infection and Sepsis.
  Opal Steven M et al. Critical care clinics 2020 Jan (1) 11-22
• Biological challenges of phage therapy and proposed solutions: a literature review.
  Caflisch Katherine M et al. Expert review of anti-infective therapy 2019 Nov
• Antibiotics: past, present and future.
  Hutchings Matt et al. Current opinion in microbiology 2019 Nov 72-80

METHODS / TOOLS

• Next-generation sequencing of dsRNA is greatly improved by treatment with the inexpensive denaturing reagent DMSO.
  Wilcox Alexander H et al. Microbial genomics 2019 Nov
• Predicting whole genome sequencing success for archived avian influenza virus (Orthomyxoviridae) samples using real-time and droplet PCRs.
  Hopken Matthew W et al. Journal of virological methods 2019 Nov 113777
• DAMIAN: an open source bioinformatics tool for fast, systematic and cohort based analysis of microorganisms in diagnostic samples.
  Alawi Malik et al. Scientific reports 2019 Nov (1) 16841
• ChlamDB: a comparative genomics database of the phylum Chlamydiae and other members of the Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobiae-Chlamydiae superphylum.
  Pillonel Trestan et al. Nucleic acids research 2019 Oct
• mNGS in clinical microbiology laboratories: on the road to maturity.
  Han Dongsheng et al. Critical reviews in microbiology 2019 Nov 1-18 
• Surveillance to maintain the sensitivity of genotype-based antibiotic resistance diagnostics.
  Hicks Allison L et al. PLoS biology 2019 Nov (11) e3000547
• Predicting the secondary structure of globular proteins using neural network models.
  Qian N et al. Journal of molecular biology 1988 Aug (4) 865-84

EVOLUTION / ECOLOGY / POPULATIONS

• Whole-genome sequencing identifies highly related Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains in multiple washbasin U-bends at several locations in one hospital: evidence for trafficking of potential pathogens via wastewater pipes.
  Moloney E M et al. The Journal of hospital infection 2019 Nov
• Presence of Legionella spp. in cooling towers: the role of microbial diversity, Pseudomonas, and continuous chlorine application.
  Paranjape Kiran et al. Water research 2019 Nov 115252
• Conserved Patterns of Symmetric Inversion in the Genome Evolution of Bordetella Respiratory Pathogens.
  Weigand Michael R et al. mSystems 2019 Nov (6) 
• Comparative genomics of hepatitis A virus, hepatitis C virus, and hepatitis E virus provides insights into the evolutionary history of Hepatovirus species.
  Wassenaar Trudy M et al. MicrobiologyOpen 2019 Nov e973
• Recombination between Vaccine and Field Strains of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus.
  Wang Anping et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2019 12 (12) 2335-2337
• Introduction of Avian Influenza A(H6N5) Virus into Asia from North America by Wild Birds.
  Jeong Sol et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2019 11 (11) 2138-2140
• Epidemiologic, Entomologic, and Virologic Factors of the 2014-15 Ross River Virus Outbreak, Queensland, Australia.
  Jansen Cassie C et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2019 12 (12) 2243-2252
• A New Lineage of Cryptococcus gattii (VGV) Discovered in the Central Zambezian Miombo Woodlands.
  Farrer Rhys A et al. mBio 2019 Nov (6)

PATHOGENICITY / ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

• Multi-strain Tn-Seq reveals common daptomycin resistance determinants in Staphylococcus aureus.
  Coe Kathryn A et al. PLoS pathogens 2019 Nov (11) e1007862
• Development of a multi-locus typing scheme for an Enterobacteriaceae linear plasmid that mediates inter-species transfer of flagella.
  Robertson James et al. PloS one 2019 (11) e0218638
• Complex Class 1 Integron in a Clinical Escherichia coli Strain From Vietnam Carrying Both mcr-1 and bla NDM-1 .
  Le-Vo Hong-Ngoc et al. Frontiers in microbiology 2019 2472
• The Global Ascendency of OXA-48-Type Carbapenemases.
  Pitout Johann D D et al. Clinical microbiology reviews 2019 Dec (1)
• Molecular mechanism of azithromycin resistance among typhoidal Salmonella stains in Bangladesh identified through passive pediatric surveillance.
  Hooda Yogesh et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2019 Nov (11) e0007868
• CRISPR-Cas influences the acquisition of antibiotic resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae.
  Mackow Natalie A et al. PloS one 2019 (11) e0225131
• Genomic Analysis of Fluoroquinolone- and Tetracycline-Resistant Campylobacter jejuni Sequence Type 6964 in Humans and Poultry, New Zealand, 2014-2016.
  French Nigel P et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2019 12 (12) 2226-2234
• Canine Distemper Virus in Asiatic Lions of Gujarat State, India.
  Mourya Devendra T et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2019 11 (11) 2128-2130

DETECTION / DIAGNOSIS

• A Cautionary Report for Pathogen Identification Using Shotgun Metagenomics; A Comparison to Aerobic Culture and Polymerase Chain Reaction for Salmonella enterica Identification.
  Doster Enrique et al. Frontiers in microbiology 2019 2499
• Complete hybrid genome assembly of clinical multidrug-resistant Bacteroides fragilis isolates enables comprehensive identification of antimicrobial-resistance genes and plasmids.
  Sydenham Thomas V et al. Microbial genomics 2019 Nov
• Hepatitis C Virus among Female Sex Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study Conducted along Rivers and Highways in the Amazon Region.
  Oliveira-Filho Aldemir B et al. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 2019 Nov (4)

EPIDEMIOLOGY / OUTBREAKS / TRANSMISSION

• Genetic relationship between bacteria isolated from intraoperative air samples and surgical site infections at a major teaching hospital in Ghana.
  Stauning Marius Ahm et al. The Journal of hospital infection 2019 Nov
• Short communication: Multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections retrospectively linked to unpasteurized milk using whole-genome sequencing.
  Nichols Megin et al. Journal of dairy science 2019 Nov  
• A multi-species cluster of GES-5 carbapenemase producing Enterobacterales linked by a geographically disseminated plasmid.
  Ellington Matthew J et al. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019 Nov 
• Opioid Use Fueling HIV Transmission in an Urban Setting: An Outbreak of HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs-Massachusetts, 2015-2018.
  Alpren Charles et al. American journal of public health 2019 Nov e1-e8  

ANTIMICROBIALS / VACCINES / INTERVENTIONS

• Acute Influenza A virus outbreak in an enzootic infected sow herd: Impact on viral dynamics, genetic and antigenic variability and effect of maternally derived antibodies and vaccination.
  Ryt-Hansen Pia et al. PloS one 2019 (11) e0224854 
• Novel gRNA design pipeline to develop broad-spectrum CRISPR/Cas9 gRNAs for safe targeting of the HIV-1 quasispecies in patients.
  Sullivan Neil T et al. Scientific reports 2019 Nov (1) 17088

HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

• The seminal microbiome in health and disease.
  Altmäe Signe et al. Nature reviews. Urology 2019 Nov
• Gut mycobiota under scrutiny: fungal symbionts or environmental transients?
  Fiers William D et al. Current opinion in microbiology 2019 Nov 79-86
• Longitudinal multi-omics of host-microbe dynamics in prediabetes.
  Zhou Wenyu et al. Nature 2019 05 (7758) 663-671
• Metagenomics of the faecal virome indicate a cumulative effect of enterovirus and gluten amount on the risk of coeliac disease autoimmunity in genetically at risk children: the TEDDY study.
  Lindfors Katri et al. Gut 2019 Nov
• Oncobiome at the Forefront of a Novel Molecular Mechanism to Understand the Microbiome and Cancer.
  Astudillo-de la Vega H et al. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2019 147-156

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