Next-generation sequencing for confronting virus pandemics

J Quer, S Colomer-Castell, C Campos, C Andrés… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Virus pandemics have happened, are happening and will happen again. In recent decades,
the rate of zoonotic viral spillover into humans has accelerated, mirroring the expansion of …

Advancing pathogen genomics in resource-limited settings

PM Pronyk, R de Alwis, R Rockett, K Basile… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Genomic sequencing has emerged as a powerful tool to enhance early pathogen detection
and characterization with implications for public health and clinical decision making …

The fight against poliovirus is not over

CJ Mbani, MP Nekoua, D Moukassa, D Hober - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Poliovirus (PV), the virus that causes both acute poliomyelitis and post-polio syndrome, is
classified within the Enterovirus C species, and there are three wild PV serotypes: WPV1 …

Rapid and sensitive direct detection and identification of poliovirus from stool and environmental surveillance samples by use of nanopore sequencing

AG Shaw, M Majumdar, C Troman… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Global poliovirus surveillance involves virus isolation from stool and environmental samples,
intratypic differential (ITD) by PCR, and sequencing of the VP1 region to distinguish vaccine …

Detection of Polioviruses Type 2 among Migrant Children Arriving to the Russian Federation from a Country with a Registered Poliomyelitis Outbreak

OE Ivanova, TP Eremeeva, OY Baykova, AY Krasota… - Vaccines, 2024 - mdpi.com
The widespread use of the oral poliovaccine from Sabin strains (tOPV) radically reduced
poliomyelitis incidence worldwide. However, OPV became a source of neurovirulent vaccine …

Environmental surveillance for Salmonella Typhi as a tool to estimate the incidence of typhoid fever in low-income populations

CB Uzzell, CM Troman, J Rigby, VR Mohan, J John… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Abstract Background The World Health Organisation recommends prioritised use of recently
prequalified typhoid conjugate vaccines in countries with the highest incidence of typhoid …

The role of time-varying viral shedding in modelling environmental surveillance for public health: revisiting the 2013 poliovirus outbreak in Israel

AF Brouwer, MC Eisenberg… - Journal of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Environmental pathogen surveillance is a sensitive tool that can detect early-stage
outbreaks, and it is being used to track poliovirus and other pathogens. However …

[HTML][HTML] Population movement and poliovirus spread across Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2023

IA Sodhar, J Mehraj, AS Hussaini, M Aamir, J Mahsaud… - Vaccines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Population movement dynamics are a critical part of understanding communicable disease
transmission patterns and determining where, when, and with whom to deliver appropriate …

The molecular evolution of type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses in individuals with primary immunodeficiency diseases

K Kitamura, H Shimizu - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV), which prevents person-to-person transmission of
poliovirus by inducing robust intestinal immunity, has been a crucial tool for global polio …

[HTML][HTML] Final frontiers of the polio eradication endgame

AS Bandyopadhyay, GR Macklin - Current Opinion in Infectious …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
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