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