Rapid Diagnosis and Biomedical Research

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

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]

Whole genome pyrosequencing of rare hepatitis C virus genotypes enhances subtype classification and identification of naturally occurring drug resistance variants

Newman RM, Kuntzen T, Weiner B, Berical A, Charlebois P, Kuiken C, Murphy DG, Simmonds P, Bennett P, Lennon NJ, Birren BW, Zody MC, Allen TM, Henn MR

J Infect Dis. 2013;208(1):17-31

2012

FTIR spectroscopy: A new diagnostic tool to aid DNA analysis from heated bone

Fredericks JD, Bennett P, Williams A, Rogers KD

Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2012 May;6(3):375-80
Epub 2011 Oct 2

2011

A Novel Hemotropic Mycoplasma (Hemoplasma) in a Patient With Hemolytic Anemia and Pyrexia

Jane A. Steer, Séverine Tasker, Emily N. Barker, Jørgen Jensen, Joanne Mitchell, Teresa Stocki, Victoria J. Chalker, Mike Hamon

Clin Infect Dis. 2011;53(11):e147-e151

Pneumocystis jirovecii, Mycoplasme pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae carriage rates in adult cystic fibrosis patients in West Midlands, England

R. Rashid, J. C. Brown, J. Whitehouse, N. Edward, C. G. Fink, C. G. Dowson, D. Honeybourne

Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, June 2011

A novel multilocus sequence typing scheme for the opportunistic pathogen Propionibacterium acnes and characterization of type I cell surface-associated antigens

McDowell A, Gao A, Barnard E, Fink C, Murray PI, Dowson CG, Nagy I, Lambert PA, Patrick S

Microbiology. 2011 Jul;157(Pt 7):1990-2003
Epub 2011 Apr 21

2009

Larval therapy for ulcers (VenUS II): a randomised controlled trial

Jo C Dumville, Gill Worthy, John Martin Bland, Nicky A Cullum, Christopher Dowson, Cynthia P Iglesias, Joanne L Mitchell, E Andrea Nelson, Marta Soares, David J Torgerson

Brit Med J. 2009;338:b773

Complete genomic sequences for hepatitis C virus subtypes 4b, 4c, 4d, 4g, 4k, 4l, 4m, 4n, 4o, 4p, 4q, 4r and 4t

Li C, Lu L, Wu X, Wang C, Bennett P, Lu T, Murphy D

J Gen Virol. 2009;90(Pt 8):1820-6