Rapid Diagnosis and Biomedical Research

Providing a clinically supported service for the rapid diagnosis and management of infectious and genetic disease.

2020

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

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

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

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

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

Identification of regulatory variants associated with genetic susceptibility to meningococcal disease

Borghini L, Png E, Binder A, Wright VJ, Pinnock E, de Groot R, Hazelzet J, Emonts M, Van der Flier M, Schlapbach LJ, Anderson S, Secka F, Salas A, Fink C, Carrol ED, Pollard AJ, Coin LJ, Kuijpers TW, Martinon-Torres F, Zenz W, Levin M, Hibberd ML, Davila S; EUCLIDS consortium

Sci Rep. 2019 May 6;9(1):6966 DOI: doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-43292-6

Temporal association of the development of oropharyngeal microbiota with early life wheeze in a population based birth cohort

Elizabeth Powell, Sara Fontanella, Eve Boakes, Daniella Belgrave, Alex G Shaw, Emma Cornwell, Roberto Fernandez-Crespo, Colin G Fink, Adnan Custovic, J Simon Kroll

E-Bio-Medicine 46 pp486-498, 2019

Viral and bacterial infection elicit distinct changes in plasma lipids in febrile children

Xinzhu Wang, Ruud Nijman, Stephane Camuzeaux, Caroline Sands, Heather Jackson, Myrsini Kaforou, Marieke Emonts, Jethro Herberg, Ian Maconochie, Enitan D Carrol, Stephane C Paulus, Werner Zenz, Michiel Van der Flier, Ronald de Groot, Federico Martinon-Torres, Luregn J Schlapbach, Andrew J Pollard, Colin Fink, Taco T Kuijpers, Suzanne Anderson, Matthew Lewis, Michael Levin, Myra McClure, on behalf of EUCLIDS consortium

Nature, 2019

2018

Life-threatening infections in children in Europe (the EUCLIDS Project): a prospective cohort study

Boeddha NP, Klobassa DS, Secka F, Paulus S, de Groot R, Schlapbach LJ, Driessen GJ, Anderson ST, Emonts M, Zenz W, Carrol ED, Van der Flier M, Levin M; EUCLIDS Consortium

Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2018 Jun;2(6):404-414 DOI: doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30113-5

Human Amylase gene copy number variation as a determinant of metabolic state

Elder J.D., Ramsden D.B., Burnett D., Weickert M.O., Barber T

Expert Review of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2018 (13) 193-205