Rapid Diagnosis and Biomedical Research

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

2018

Comparison of the first whole genome sequence of Haemophilus quentini with two new strains of Haemophilus quentini and other species of Haemophilus

Hubbard A.T.M., Davies S.E.W., Baxter L., Thompson S, Collery M.M, Hand D.C, Thomas D.J .I, Fink C.G

Genome. 2018 May;61 (5):379-385 DOI: doi: 10.1139/gen-2017-0195

Mortality and morbidity in community-acquired sepsis in European paediatric intensive care units: a prospective cohort study from the European Childhood Life-threatening Infectious Disease Study (EUCLIDS)

Boeddha NP, Schlapbach LJ, Driessen GJ, Herberg JA, Rivero-Calle I, Cebey-López M, Klobassa DS, Philipsen R, de Groot R, Inwald DP, Nadel S, Paulus S, Pinnock E, Secka F, Anderson ST, Agbeko RS, Berger C, Fink CG, Carrol ED, Zenz W, Levin M, van der Flier M, Martinón-Torres F, Hazelzet JA, Emonts M; EUCLIDS consortium

Crit Care. 2018 May 31;22(1):143 DOI: doi: 10.1186/s13054-018-2052-7

Genetic diversity among white-nest swiftlets of the genus Aerodramus (Aves: Apodidae: Collocaliini) of house-farms in Malaysia

Goh W.L., Siew W.S., Davies S.E.W., Ball S., Khoo G., Lim C.K., Rahman M. A., Earl of Cranbrook

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 2018 June 22; (66):350–360

2016

Bacteremia in Children Hospitalized with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection

Miriam Cebey-López, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Nazareth Martinón-Torres, José María Martinón-Sánchez, Antonio Justicia-Grande, Irene Rivero-Calle, Elli Pinnock, Antonio Salas, Colin Fink, Federico Martinón-Torres; GENDRES network

PLoS One, February 2016

Draft whole-genome sequence of a Haemophilus quentini strain isolated from an infant in the United Kingdom

Hubbard ATM, Davies SEW, Baxter L, Thompson S, Collery MM, Hand DC, Fink CG, Thomas DJI

Genome Announc 4(5):e01075-16, 2016

Does Viral Co-Infection Influence the Severity of Acute Respiratory Infection in Children?

Cebey-López M, Herberg J, Pardo-Seco J, Gómez-Carballa A, Martinón-Torres N, Salas A, Martinón-Sánchez JM, Justicia A, Rivero-Calle I, Sumner E, Fink C, Martinón-Torres F; GENDRES network

PLoS One. 2016 Apr 20;11(4):e0152481

Diagnostic Test Accuracy of a 2-Transcript Host RNA Signature for Discriminating Bacterial vs Viral Infection in Febrile Children

Herberg JA, Kaforou M, Wright VJ, Shailes H, Eleftherohorinou H, Hoggart CJ, Cebey-López M, Carter MJ, Janes VA, Gormley S, Shimizu C, Tremoulet AH, Barendregt AM, Salas A, Kanegaye J, Pollard AJ, Faust SN, Patel S, Kuijpers T, Martinón-Torres F, Burns JC, Coin LJ, Levin M; IRIS Consortium

JAMA. 2016 Aug 23-30;316(8):835-45

2015

Viral Co-Infections in Pediatric Patients Hospitalized with Lower Tract Acute Respiratory Infections

Miriam Cebey-López, Jethro Herberg, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Nazareth Martinón-Torres, Antonio Salas, José María Martinón-Sánchez, Stuart Gormley, Edward Sumner, Colin Fink, Federico Martinón-Torres; GENDRES network

PLoS One, September 2, 2015

2014

New Approaches to the Understanding of ‘Infection’

Fink C.G, and Pinnock Eleanor

Chapter in Current Progress in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Publishers Tree Life Medical Kothari Medical India, 2014

2013

DNA analysis of skeletal tissue recovered from the English Channel

J Fredericks, K Brown, A Williams, P Bennett

J Foren & Legal Med August Vol: 20, Pages: 757–759, 2013

Transcriptomic Profiling in Childhood H1N1/09 Influenza Reveals Reduced Expression of Protein Synthesis Genes

Herberg JA, Kaforou M, Gormley S, Sumner ER, Patel S, Jones KDJ, Paulus S, Fink C, Martinon-Torres F, Montana G, Wright VJ, Levin M, et al

J. INF DIS, Vol: 208, Pages: 1664-1668, 2013

Characterization of full-length HCV sequences for subtypes 1e, 1h, and 1l, and a novel variant revealed Cameroon as an area in origin for genotype 1

Li C, Njouom R, Pépin J, Nakano T, Bennett P, Pybus OG, Lu L

J Gen Virol. 2013 May 15 [Epub ahead of print]