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Advanced Molecular Detection Clips Database|AMD Clips|PHGKB

Publication Date: Mar 15, 2018

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Clips are selected weekly from a variety of sources, including PubMed, journal tables of contents, and online media. Special emphasis is given to the use of next-generation genetic sequencing in infectious disease public health surveillance, investigation, and development of new diagnostics and interventions. The collection is not comprehensive but aims to capture highlights, while surveying a wide range of topics. CDC-authored articles are flagged. Items marked I&E address aspects of implementation or evaluation in clinical or public health practice. View Data Selection Criteria

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Advanced Molecular Detection Clips Content

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

NEWS

• 'Disease X': The Mystery Malady That Could One Day Kill Millions  
  da Silva C. Newsweek, Mar 11, 2018.
• NASA-funded AI-powered healthcare innovation platform launches at SXSW  
  Parmar A. MedCity News, Mar 11, 2018.
• UCLA Leverages Lab Standardization to Evaluate New POC Testing  
  GenomeWeb, Mar 12, 2018.
• NIH scientists describe potential antibody approach for treating multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae  
  NIH, Mar 13, 2018.
• International Team Developing Reagent Test That Could Broaden Access to TB Screening  
  O'Connor L. 360dx, Mar 8, 2018.
• Columbia Team Develops Serological Zika Test Using Peptide Microarrays  
  360dx, Mar 8, 2018.
• Of Microbes and Men: Advancing Epidemiologic Research on the Human Microbiome  
  Fisher V. NCI, Mar 5, 2018.

EVENTS / TRAINING / WEB RESOURCES

• Integrating Infectious Disease Considerations with Response to the Opioid Epidemic: A Workshop  
  (workshop) NASEM, Mar 12-13, 2018.
• Genome Workbench 2.12.8 now available  
  (announcement) NCBI, Mar 9, 2018.

POLICY

• R&D Blueprint: List of Blueprint priority diseases  
  WHO, Mar 9, 2018.

CONCEPTS / COMMENTS

• Definitions and Historical Perspectives in Environmental Forensics.  
  Toranzos Gary A et al. Microbiology spectrum 2018 Mar (2)
• Monoclonal Antibodies for Emerging Infectious Diseases - Borrowing from History.  
  Marston Hilary D et al. The New England journal of medicine 2018 Mar
• History of CRISPR-Cas from encounter with a mysterious repeated sequence to genome editing technology.  
  Ishino Yoshizumi et al. Journal of bacteriology 2018 Jan
• Patients at high risk of tuberculosis recurrence.  
  Mirsaeidi Mehdi et al. International journal of mycobacteriology (1) 1-6
• Reimagining the Research Approach to Tuberculosis  
  Fauci AS, Eisinger RW. Am J Trop Med Hyg, Mar 2018.

METHODS / TOOLS

• Dried Blood Spot RNA Transcriptomes Correlate with Transcriptomes Derived from Whole Blood RNA.  
  Reust Mary J et al. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2018 Mar
• PlasmidTron: assembling the cause of phenotypes and genotypes from NGS data.  
  Page Andrew J et al. Microbial genomics 2018 Mar
• Facilitated sequence assembly using densely labeled optical DNA barcodes: A combinatorial auction approach.  
  Dvirnas Albertas et al. PloS one 2018 (3) e0193900
• Networking of Public Health Microbiology Laboratories Bolsters Europe's Defenses against Infectious Diseases.  
  Albiger Barbara et al. Frontiers in public health 2018 46 
• Comparative analysis of Campylobacter isolates from wild birds and chickens using MALDI-TOF MS, biochemical testing, and DNA sequencing.  
  Lawton Samantha J et al. Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc 2018 Mar 1040638718762562
• Comparison of advanced whole genome sequence-based methods to distinguish strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg involved in foodborne outbreaks in Québec.  
  Vincent Caroline et al. Food microbiology 2018 Aug 99-110
• Cross-Sectional HIV Incidence Surveillance: A Benchmarking of Approaches for Estimating the 'Mean Duration of Recent Infection'.  
  Kassanjee Reshma et al. Statistical communications in infectious diseases 2017 Mar (1) 
• Influence of fecal collection conditions and 16S rRNA gene sequencing at two centers on human gut microbiota analysis.  
  Penington Jocelyn Sietsma et al. Scientific reports 2018 Mar (1) 4386
• A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity.  
  Thompson Luke R et al. Nature 2017 Nov (7681) 457-463

EVOLUTION / ECOLOGY / POPULATIONS

• Reconstituting the Evolutionary History of Cronobacter Driven by Differentiated CRISPR Activity.  
  Zeng Haiyan et al. Applied and environmental microbiology 2018 Mar
• Preliminary studies on isolates of Clostridium difficile from dogs and exotic pets.  
  Andrés-Lasheras Sara et al. BMC veterinary research 2018 Mar (1) 77
• Genomic Surveillance of 4CMenB Vaccine Antigenic Variants among Disease-Causing Neisseria meningitidis Isolates, United Kingdom, 2010–2016
  Rodrigues C, et al. Emerg Infect Did, Apr 4, 2018. 
• Genetic Characterization of Enterovirus A71 Circulating in Africa 
  Fernandez-Garcia M, et al. Emerg Infect Dis, Apr 2018.
• Emerging Coxsackievirus A6 Causing Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Vietnam 
  Anh NT, et al. Emerg Infect Dis, Apr 2018.
• Genomic Insights into Zika Virus Emergence and Spread.  
  Grubaugh Nathan D et al. Cell 2018 Mar (6) 1160-1162
• Rotavirus genotypes circulating in Ontario, Canada, before and after implementation of the rotavirus immunization program.  
  Isabel Sandra et al. Vaccine 2018 Mar 
• The spread and evolution of rabies virus: conquering new frontiers.  
  Fisher Christine R et al. Nature reviews. Microbiology 2018 Apr (4) 241-255
• Genomic characterisation of human monkeypox virus in Nigeria  
  Faye O, et al. Lancet Infect Dis, Mar 2018.
• Whole-genome sequencing analysis of human bocavirus detected in South Korea.  
  Kang L H et al. Epidemiology and infection 2018 Mar 1-9
• Genetic diversity of Cryptosporidium hominis in a Bangladeshi community as revealed by whole genome sequencing.  
  Gilchrist Carol A et al. The Journal of infectious diseases 2018 Mar
• World's Largest Mass Bathing Event Influences the Bacterial Communities of Godavari, a Holy River of India.  
  Jani Kunal et al. Microbial ecology 2018 Mar

PATHOGENICITY / ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

• Global survey of Klebsiella pneumoniae major porins from ertapenem non-susceptible isolates lacking carbapenemases.  
  Wise Mark G et al. Journal of medical microbiology 2018 Mar (3) 289-295
• Sustained transmission of high-level azithromycin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in England: an observational study.  
  Fifer Helen et al. The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2018 Mar
• Targeting Antibiotic Tolerance, Pathogen by Pathogen.  
  Meylan Sylvain et al. Cell 2018 Mar (6) 1228-1238
• Towards Understanding MCR-like Colistin Resistance.  
  Sun Jian et al. Trends in microbiology 2018 Mar
• Microbiological characteristics of a novel species most closely related to 'Bergeyella cardium' as a pathogen of infectious endocarditis.  
  Guo Li-Na et al. PloS one 2018 (1) e0191715
• Multi- and Extensively-Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in South Africa: A Molecular Analysis of Historical Isolates.  
  Maningi Nontuthuko E et al. Journal of clinical microbiology 2018 Mar
• TnSeq of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates reveals strain-specific antibiotic liabilities.  
  Carey Allison F et al. PLoS pathogens 2018 Mar (3) e1006939
• Hepatitis C virus drug resistance associated substitutions and their clinical relevance: Update 2018.  
  Sorbo Maria C et al. Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy 2018 Feb

DETECTION / DIAGNOSIS

• Shared and organism-specific host responses to childhood diarrheal diseases revealed by whole blood transcript profiling.  
  DeBerg Hannah A et al. PloS one 2018 (1) e0192082
• Surveillance for control of antimicrobial resistance  
  Tacconelli E, et al. Lancet Infect Dis, Mar 2018.
• Improved discrimination of Bacillus anthracis from Closely Related Species in the Bacillus cereus sensu lato Group based on MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry.  
  Pauker Viktoria I et al. Journal of clinical microbiology 2018 Mar
• Development and validation of pan-Leptospira Taqman qPCR for the detection of Leptospira spp. in clinical specimens.  
  Mohd Ali Mohammad Ridhuan et al. Molecular and cellular probes 2018 Mar
• Direct Whole-Genome Sequencing of Cutaneous Strains of Haemophilus ducreyi 
  Marks M, et al. Emerg Infect Dis, Apr 2018.
• Comprehensive Molecular Approach for Characterization of Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 Variants.  
  Wang Bo et al. Journal of clinical microbiology 2018 Mar
• An ultrafast one-step assay for the visual detection of RNA virus.  
  Ma Cuiping et al. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 2018 Mar
• Prolonged detection of Zika virus nucleic acid among symptomatic pregnant women: a cohort study.  
  Lozier Matthew J et al. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2018 Mar
• External Quality Assessment for Zika Virus Molecular Diagnostic Testing, Brazil.  
  Fischer Carlo et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2018 May (5) 
• Integrated analysis of human-animal-vector surveillance: West Nile virus infections in Austria, 2015-2016.  
  Kolodziejek Jolanta et al. Emerging microbes & infections 2018 Mar (1) 25
• Direct detection of Coccidioides from Arizona soils using CocciENV, a highly sensitive and specific real-time PCR assay.  
  Bowers J R et al. Medical mycology 2018 Mar
• Visible DNA microarray system as an adjunctive molecular test in the identification of pathogenic fungi directly from a blood culture bottle.  
  Sturaro Lais Lovison et al. Journal of clinical microbiology 2018 Mar
• Human Babesiosis Caused by a Babesia crassa-like Pathogen: A Case Series.  
  Jia Na et al. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2018 Mar

EPIDEMIOLOGY / OUTBREAKS / TRANSMISSION

• Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of CTX-M-15 Producing Klebsiella Isolates Allowed Dissecting a Polyclonal Outbreak Scenario.  
  Becker Laura et al. Frontiers in microbiology 2018 322
• Outbreak of febrile gastroenteritis caused by Listeria monocytogenes 1/2a in sliced cold beef ham, Italy, May 2016.  
  Maurella Cristiana et al. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2018 Mar (10)
• Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 Subtype B Reveals Heterogeneous Transmission Risk: Implications for Intervention and Control.  
  Volz Erik M et al. The Journal of infectious diseases 2018 Feb

ANTIMICROBIALS / VACCINES / INTERVENTIONS

• Development of a reverse genetics system for Sosuga virus allows rapid screening of antiviral compounds.  
  Welch Stephen R et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2018 Mar (3) e0006326 

HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

• Systems biology of the human microbiome.  
  Peñalver Bernabé Beatriz et al. Current opinion in biotechnology 2018 Feb 146-153
• Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients.  
  Hamad Ibrahim et al. PloS one 2018 (1) e0191913
• Associations between sexual habits, menstrual hygiene practices, demographics and the vaginal microbiome as revealed by Bayesian network analysis.  
  Noyes Noelle et al. PloS one 2018 (1) e0191625
• Update on tuberculosis biomarkers: From correlates of risk, to correlates of active disease and of cure from disease.  
  Goletti Delia et al. Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) 2018 Feb
• Genetics of human susceptibility to active and latent tuberculosis: present knowledge and future perspectives  
  Abel L, et al. Lancet Infect Dis, Mar 2018.

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