Real‐time genomics for One Health

L Urban, A Perlas, O Francino… - Molecular Systems …, 2023 - embopress.org
The ongoing degradation of natural systems and other environmental changes has put our
society at a crossroad with respect to our future relationship with our planet. While the …

Whole-genome sequencing as part of national and international surveillance programmes for antimicrobial resistance: a roadmap

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Genomic … - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
The global spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and lack of novel alternative treatments
have been declared a global public health emergency by WHO. The greatest impact of AMR …

Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus

M Viana, JA Benavides, A Broos, D Ibañez Loayza… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin
America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies …

Elimination of human rabies in Goa, India through an integrated One Health approach

AD Gibson, G Yale, J Corfmat, M Appupillai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dog-mediated rabies kills tens of thousands of people each year in India, representing one
third of the estimated global rabies burden. Whilst the World Health Organization (WHO) …

Rabies shows how scale of transmission can enable acute infections to persist at low prevalence

R Mancy, M Rajeev, A Lugelo, K Brunker… - Science, 2022 - science.org
How acute pathogens persist and what curtails their epidemic growth in the absence of
acquired immunity remains unknown. Canine rabies is a fatal zoonosis that circulates …

Making genomic surveillance deliver: A lineage classification and nomenclature system to inform rabies elimination

K Campbell, RJ Gifford, J Singer, V Hill… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The availability of pathogen sequence data and use of genomic surveillance is rapidly
increasing. Genomic tools and classification systems need updating to reflect this. Here …

Rapid, in-field deployable, avian influenza virus haemagglutinin characterisation tool using MinION technology

EM de Vries, NOI Cogan, AJ Gubala, PT Mee… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Outbreaks of avian influenza virus (AIV) from wild waterfowl into the poultry industry is of
upmost significance and is an ongoing and constant threat to the industry. Accurate …

Portable rabies virus sequencing in canine rabies endemic countries using the Oxford Nanopore MinION

CM Gigante, G Yale, RE Condori, NC Costa, NV Long… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
As countries with endemic canine rabies progress towards elimination by 2030, it will
become necessary to employ techniques to help plan, monitor, and confirm canine rabies …

Mathematical modelling and phylodynamics for the study of dog rabies dynamics and control: A scoping review

M Layan, S Dellicour, G Baele… - PLOS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Rabies is a fatal yet vaccine-preventable disease. In the last two decades,
domestic dog populations have been shown to constitute the predominant reservoir of …

On the use of phylogeographic inference to infer the dispersal history of rabies virus: a review study

KD Nahata, N Bollen, MS Gill, M Layan, H Bourhy… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease which is caused by negative strand RNA-viruses
belonging to the genus Lyssavirus. Within this genus, rabies viruses circulate in a diverse …