PHG Foundation | Public Health England Initiative for Infectious Disease Genomics

PHG Foundation | Public Health England Initiative for Infectious Disease Genomics

Infectious Diseases

Both Lewis and secretor status mediate susceptibility to rotavirus infections in a rotavirus genotype dependent manner
Nordgren J, et al. Clin Infect Dis, Aug 5, 2014.

IFNL4-ΔG genotype is associated with slower viral clearance in hepatitis C, genotype-1 patients treated with sofosbuvir and ribavirin
Meissner EG, et al. J Infect Dis 2014; 209 (11): 1700-1704.

A proteomics approach to the identification of plasma biomarkers for latent tuberculosis infection 
Zhang X, et al. Diag Microbiol Infect Dis 2014; 79(4): 432-437.

Development and validation of a new HPV genotyping assay based on next-generation sequencing
Yi X, et al. Am J Clin Path 2014; 141: 796-804.

Comprehensive identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with beta-lactam resistance within pneumococcal mosaic genes
Chewapreecha C, et al. PLoS Genet 2014; 10(8): e1004547.

Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis
Kirsten I. Bos, et al. Nature, August 20, 2014

Black plague modified human genes, no biotech needed, by Ben Locwin, Genetic Literacy Project, Aug 21

Therapeutic prospects for CRISPR genome editing, by Dr Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation, Aug 21

Real time genomic epidemiology comes to England, by Dr Leila Luheshi, PHG Foundation, Aug 20

Resistance genes mapped
Nature, Aug 13, 2014.

Unveiling viral–host interactions within the ‘microbial dark matter’. 
Manuel Martínez-García et al. Nature Communications, August 14, 2014

Microbiology: Microbiome science needs a healthy dose of scepticism, by William P. Hanage, Nature News, Aug 20

Public Health England Initiative for Infectious Disease Genomics,  by Catherine Arnold,   PHG Foundation, Aug 19