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Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 35  Number 6  August 5-13, 2015

News/ Reviews/ Commentaries

At AACC, clinical labs air concerns regarding FDA's draft LDT guidance
GenomeWeb, Jul 31, 2015.

Risk of "leaky" vaccines debated
Kupferschmidt K. Science, Jul 31, 2015.

Genetic surveillance study finds flu viruses at two US swine markets
GenomeWeb, Jul 31, 2015.

Research scientists to use network much faster than internet
Markoff J. New York Times, Jul 31, 2015.

Researchers turn to NGS to understand growing threat of antibiotic resistance in pathogens
Heger M. GenomeWeb, Jul 29, 2015

UC Berkeley scientists develop ultrafast thermocycling with point-of-care PCR potential
Han A. GenomeWeb, Aug 3, 2015.

California precision medicine effort awards $2.4M to pediatric cancer, infectious disease projects
GenomeWeb, Aug 4, 2015.

UCSF's one-size-fits-all precision medicine test for infection
Keshavan M. MedCityNews, Aug 4, 2015.

Johns Hopkins researchers develop handheld chlamydia test using microfluidics, smartphone
Johnson M. GenomeWeb, Jul 29, 2015.

NASA team readies MinION for sequencing tests aboard ISS; launch scheduled for March 2016
Karow J. GenomeWeb, Jul 29, 2015.

Extreme weight loss surgery works, but is it thanks to the knife--or the microbes?
Leslie M. Science, Aug 4, 2015.

This little piggy went to market-but perhaps should have stayed home.
Webby R et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jul 29.

Plague or anthrax on the subway? Think again, says now-corrected study
Keith R. Retraction Watch (blog), Jul 31, 2015.

Host-directed therapies for tackling multi-drug resistant TB - learning from the Pasteur-Bechamp debates.
Zumla A et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jul 28.

A novel advanced laboratory diagnosis to guide tuberculosis drug therapy.
Amaral L et al. Recent Pat Antiinfect Drug Discov 2015 Aug 3.

Molecular studies on ancient M. tuberculosis and M. leprae: methods of pathogen and host DNA analysis.
Witas HW et al. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jul 26.

Future directions for the European influenza reference laboratory network in influenza surveillance
Goddard N, et al. Euro Surveill, Jul 30, 2015.

Real-time digital pathogen surveillance -- the time is now
Gardy J, et al. Genome Biol, Jul 30, 2015.

How Ebola-vaccine success could reshape clinical-trial policy
Butler D, et al. Nature, Aug 4, 2015.

Ebola: Embed research in outbreak response
Lang T. Nature, Aug 5, 2015.

Time for T? Immunoinformatics addresses vaccine design for neglected tropical and emerging infectious diseases.
Terry FE et al. Expert Rev Vaccines 2015 Jan (1) 21-35

Bioinformatics of antimicrobial resistance in the age of molecular epidemiology.
McArthur AG et al. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 2015 Jul 31. 45-50