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2021

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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Molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 using a reagent-free approach

Calvez R, Taylor A, Calvo-Bado L, Fraser D, Fink CG

PLoS One. 2020 Dec 7;15(12):e0243266

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Biomarkers for the discrimination of acute Kawasaki disease from infections in childhood

Judith Zandstra*, Annemarie van de Geer, Michael W.T. Tanck, Diana van Stijn-Bringas Dimitriades, Cathelijn Aarts, Sanne M Dietz, Robin Van Bruggen, Nina Schweintzger, Werner Zenz, Marieke Emonts, Dace Zavadska, Marko Pokorn, Effua Usuf, Henriette Moll, Luregn J Schlapbach, Enitan Carrol, Stephane Christian Paulus, Maria Tsolia, Colin Fink, Shunmay Yeung, Chisato Shimizu, Adriana Tremoulet, Rachel Galassini, Victoria J Wright, Federico Martinon-Torres, Jethro Herberg, Jane Cary Burns, Michael L Levin, and Taco W Kuijpers

Original Research, Front. Pediatr. – Pediatric Immunology, 2020

PIA: More Accurate Taxonomic Assignment of Metagenomic Data Demonstrated on sedaDNA From the North Sea

Cribdon B, Ware R, Smith O, Gaffney V and Allaby RG

Front. Ecol. Evol. 8:84, 2020

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The secrets of Sobek – A crocodile mummy mitogenome from ancient Egypt

Evon R. Hekkala, Matthew L. Aardema, Apurva Narechania, George Amato, Salima Ikram, Matthew H. Shirley, Kent A. Vliet, Seth W. Cunningham, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Oliver Smith

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33, 2020

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Hi-C chromosome conformation capture sequencing of avian genomes using the BGISEQ-500 platform

Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Cynthia Perez Estrada, Guojie Zhang, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Marc A Marti-Renom, M Thomas P Gilbert & Oliver Smith

GigaScience 9 (8), 2020

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2019

Cytomegalovirus infection is not a major cause of corneal graft failure in the United Kingdom

da Costa Paula CA, Gore DM, Shah K, Kuit G, Angunawela RI, Barnett JP, and Tuft SJ

Eye, 2019 33:833-837

In Response to: Smit D, Meyer D, Maritz J, et al. “Polymerase Chain Reaction and Goldmann-Witmer Coefficient to Examine the Role of Epstein-Barr Virus in Uveitis”

Murray PI, Fink C, Trivedi D

Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2019;27(1):114-115 DOI: doi: 10.1080/09273948.2017.1400075