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2022

Diagnostic accuracy of multiplex respiratory pathogen panels for influenza or respiratory syncytial virus infections: systematic review and meta-analysis

Sophie Jullien, Felicity Fitzgerald, Suzanne Keddie, Oliver Baerenbold, Quique Bassat, John Bradley, Jane Falconer, Colin Fink, Ruth Keogh, Heidi Hopkins and Marie Voice

BMC Infectious Diseases (2022) 22:785

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Variation in CFHR3 determines susceptibility to meningococcal disease by controlling factor H concentrations

Vikrant Kumar, Richard B. Pouw, Matias I. Autio, Manfred G. Sagmeister, Zai Yang Phua, Lisa Borghini, Victoria J. Wright, Clive Hoggart, Bangfen Pan, Antson Kiat Yee Tan, Alexander Binder, Mieke C. Brouwer, Ellie Pinnock, Ronald De Groot, Jan Hazelzet, Marieke Emonts, Michiel Van Der Flier, Karl Reiter, Markus M. Nöthen, Per Hoffmann, EUCLIDS consortium, Luregn J. Schlapbach, Evangelos Bellos, Suzanne Anderson, Fatou Secka, Federico Martinón-Torres, Antonio Salas, Colin Fink, Enitan D. Carrol, Andrew J. Pollard, Lachlan J. Coin, Werner Zenz, Diana Wouters, Lay Teng Ang, Martin L. Hibberd, Michael Levin, Taco W. Kuijpers, and Sonia Davila

American Journal of Human Genetics. 2022 Sep 1; 109(9): 1680–1691
ISSN 0002-9297

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Low levels of factor H family proteins during meningococcal disease indicate systemic processes rather than specific depletion by Neisseria meningitidis

van Beek, Anna E, Pouw, Richard B, Wright, Victoria J, Sallah, Neneh, Inwald, David, Hoggart, Clive, Brouwer, Mieke C, Galassini, Rachel, Thomas, John, Calvo-Bado, Leo A, Fink, Colin, Jongerius, Ilse, Hibberd, Martin, Wouters, Diana, Levin, Michael and Kuijpers, Taco W on behalf of the EUCLIDS Consortium

Frontiers in Immunology, 13-2022
ISSN 1664-3224

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The temporal pattern and lifestyle associations of respiratory virus infection in a cohort study spanning the first two years of life

Powell E, Sumner E, Shaw AG, Calvez R, Fink CG, Kroll JS

BMC Pediatr. 2022 Mar 31;22(1):166 DOI: doi: 10.1186/s12887-022-03215-3. PMID: 35361147

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Comparing lateral flow testing with a rapid RT-PCR method for SARS-CoV-2 detection in the United Kingdom – A retrospective diagnostic accuracy study

Taylor A, Calvez R, Atkins M, Fink CG

Health Sci Rep. 2022;5:e811 DOI: doi:10.1002/hsr2.811

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2021

Loss of Factor H family proteins associates with meningococcal disease severity

Anna E. van, Richard B. Pouw, Victoria J. Wright, Neneh Sallah, David Inwald, Clive Hoggart, Mieke C. Brouwer, Rachel Galassini, John Thomas, Leo Calvo-Bado, Colin Fink, Ilse Jongerius, Martin Hibberd, Diana Wouters, Michael Levin, Taco W. Kuijpers

2021

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High-throughput sequencing reveals dietary segregation in Malaysian babblers

Mohammad Saiful Mansor, Fasihah Zarifah Rozali, Sian Davies, Shukor Md. Nor, Rosli Ramli

Current Zoology, 2021

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Treponema pallidum PCR testing for diagnosis of mucocutaneous ulcers suspicious for syphilis

Muhammad Hyder Junejo, Mark Collery, Gary Whitlock, Alan McOwan, Victoria Tittle, Diarmuid Nugent

Sex Transm Infect. Epub ahead of print: (2021)

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2020

Asymptomatic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in a Rehabilitation Facility: Evolution of the Presence of Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 and Serological Antibody Responses

Benjamin H. L. Harris, Mohamed Zuhair, Matteo Di Giovannantonio, Carolina Rosadas, Maryam Khan, Charlotte-Eve Short, Thilipan Thaventhiran, Rachael Quinlan, Andrew Taylor, Ronan Calvez, Graham P. Taylor, Richard S. Tedder, Myra O. McClure, and Michael Fertleman

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020

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AMY1 Gene Copy number Correlates with Glucose Absorption and Visceral Fat Volume, but Not with Insulin Resistance

Thomas M Barber, Ahsan A Bhatti, Patrick JD Elder, Sarah P Ball, Ronan Calvez, David B Ramsden, Dan J Cuthbertson, Andreas F Pfeiffer, David Burnett, and Martin O Weickert

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2020 105. e3586-e3596

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Ancient microRNA profiles of a 14,300-year-old canid sample confirm taxonomic origin and give glimpses into tissue-specific gene regulation from the Pleistocene

Bastian Fromm, Marcel Tarbier, Oliver Smith, Emilio Marmol-Sanchez, Love Dalen, Tom P Gilbert, & Marc R Friedlander

2020. DOI: RNA, doi: 10.1261/rna.078410.120, 2020

Phenotypic variation and polymorphism confirmed among white-bellied swiftlets of the Collocalia esculenta group (Apodidae, Collocaliini) by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evidence

Sian E W Davies, Wei Lim Goh, Sarah P Ball, Earl of Cranbrook, Wei Sheng Siew, Michael Tarburton

Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club (Bull. B.O.C.), 2020 140(4)

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