Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases: Detection/ Diagnosis

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 35  Number 4  July 23-30, 2015

Detection/ Diagnosis

Isothermal detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae directly from respiratory clinical specimens.
Petrone BL et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Jul 15. 

Incidence of Echinococcus granulosus in domestic dogs in Palestine as revealed by Copro-PCR.
Al-Jawabreh A et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015 Jul (7) e0003934

Development of recombinase polymerase amplification assays for detection of Orientia tsutsugamushi or Rickettsia typhi.
Chao Chien-Chung et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015 Jul (7) e0003884

Design and application of a core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme for investigation of Legionnaires' disease incidents 
Moran-Gilad J, et al. Euro Surveill 2015;20(28):pii=21186.

Deletion of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (pfhrp2) and histidine-rich protein 3 (pfhrp3) genes in Colombian parasites.
Murillo SC et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (7) e0131576

A rapid field-deployable reverse transcription-insulated isothermal polymerase chain reaction assay for sensitive and specific detection of Bluetongue virus.
Ambagala A et al. Transbound Emerg Dis 2015 Jul 19.

Application of a high-resolution melting technique for the rapid detection of partial replacement of HCV-1b by HCV-1a after PEG-IFN?/RBV therapy.
Holysz M et al. J. Appl. Genet. 2015 May (2) 271-5

Randomized trial of rapid multiplex polymerase chain reaction-based blood culture identification and susceptibility testing.
Banerjee R et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jul 20.

A single-loop recombinant pseudotyped-virus-based assay to detect HIV-1 phenotypic resistance.
Wu S et al. Arch. Virol. 2015 Jun (6) 1385-95

Real-time PCR detection of Campylobacter spp.: A comparison to classic culturing and enrichment.
de Boer P et al. Food Microbiol. 2015 Oct 96-100