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Infectious Diseases

Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak
Gire SK, et al. Science 2014; 345: 1369-1372.

Leading the way: driving the delivery of pathogen genomics into practice, by Dr Sowmiya Moorthie, PHG Foundation, October 2014

Infectious disease threats - global issues requiring global solutions, by Sobia Raza, PHG Foundation, Sep 29, (report on 7th Global Microbial Identifier (GMI) Meeting)

A defining decade in DNA sequencing
McPherson JD. Nat Methods 2014; 11: 1003-1005.

LABEL: fast and accurate lineage assignment with assessment of H5N1 and H9N2 influenza A hemagglutinins
Shepard SS, et al. PLoS One. 2014;9(1):e86921.

MaxBin: an automated binning method to recover individual genomes from metagenomes using an expectation-maximization algorithm
Yu YW, et al. Microbiome 2014; 2:26.

MaxBin: Automated sorting through metagenomes, e ScienceNews, Sep 30, 2014.

Application of Ion Torrent sequencing to the assessment of the effect of alkali ballast water treatment on microbial community diversity
Fujimoto M, et al. PLoS ONE 2014; 9(9): e107534.

Filovirus RefSeq entries: evaluation and selection of filovirus type variants, type sequences, and names
Kuhn JH, et al. Viruses 2014; 6(9): 3663-3682.

Epidemiological and molecular features of norovirus infections in Italian children affected with acute gastroenteritis
Medici MC, et al. Epidemiol Infect 2014; 142(11): 2326-2335.

Phylogeography and molecular epidemiology of an epidemic strain of dengue virus type 1 in Sri Lanka
Ocwieja KE, et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2014; 91(2):225-234.

Evidence of recombinant strains of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, United States, 2013
Tian PF, et al. Emerg Infect Dis, Oct 2014.

Pathogenicity and genomic characterization of a pseudorabies virus variant isolated from Bartha-K61-vaccinated swine population in China
Luo Y, et al. Vet Microbiol, Sep 22, 2014.

Molecular analysis of single oocyst of Eimeria by whole genome amplification (WGA) based nested PCR
Wang Y, et al. Exp Parasitol 2014;144:96-9.

Real-time investigation of a Legionella pneumophila outbreak using whole genome sequencing
Graham RM, et al. Epidemiol Infect  2014; 142(11): 2347-2351.

Genotyping of Burkholderia mallei from an outbreak of glanders in Bahrain suggests multiple introduction events
Scholz HC, et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2014; 8(9): e3195.

Norovirus genotypes implicated in two oyster-related illness outbreaks in Ireland
Rajko-Nenow P, et al. Epidemiol Infect 2014;142(10):2096-104.

The genome sequence of ectromelia virus Naval and Cornell isolates from outbreaks in North America
Mavian C, et al. Virology 2014;462-463:218-26.

Mixed triple: allied viruses in unique recent isolates of highly virulent type 2 bovine viral diarrhea virus detected by deep sequencing
Jenckel M, et al. J Virol 2014;88(12):6983-92.

Molecular epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant enterococci isolated from non-tertiary-care and tertiary-care hospitals in Korea
Jung MK, et al. Epidemiol Infect 2014; 142(11): 2372-2377.

Association of antibiotics in infancy with early childhood obesity
Bailey LC, et al. JAMA Pediatr, Sep 29, 2014

Etiologies for seizures around the time of vaccination
VerBeek NE, et al. Pediatr, Sep 15, 2014.

Most vaccination-onset epilepsy has genetic, structural cause, by Anderson P.,  Medscape, Sep 24, 2014.

Membership and behavior of ultra-low-diversity pathogen communities present in the gut of humans during prolonged critical illness
Zaborin A, et al. mBio 2014; 5(5): e01361-14.

Cytomegalovirus alpha-chemokine genotypes are associated with clinical manifestations in children with congenital or postnatal infections
Paradowska E, et al. Virology 2014 Aug;462-463:207-17.