Understanding the promises and hurdles of metagenomic next-generation sequencing as a diagnostic tool for infectious diseases

PJ Simner, S Miller, KC Carroll - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Agnostic metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has emerged as a promising
single, universal pathogen detection method for infectious disease diagnostics. This …

Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis

SS Morse, JAK Mazet, M Woolhouse, CR Parrish… - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Most pandemics—eg, HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, pandemic influenza—
originate in animals, are caused by viruses, and are driven to emerge by ecological …

The global virome project

D Carroll, P Daszak, ND Wolfe, GF Gao, CM Morel… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Outbreaks of novel and deadly viruses highlight global vulnerability to emerging diseases,
with many having massive health and economic impacts. Our adaptive toolkit—based …

Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing

MR Wilson, SN Naccache, E Samayoa… - … England Journal of …, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
A 14-year-old boy with severe combined immunodeficiency presented three times to a
medical facility over a period of 4 months with fever and headache that progressed to …

Arbidol as a broad-spectrum antiviral: an update

J Blaising, SJ Polyak, EI Pécheur - Antiviral research, 2014 - Elsevier
Arbidol (ARB) is a Russian-made small indole-derivative molecule, licensed in Russia and
China for prophylaxis and treatment of influenza and other respiratory viral infections. It also …

A novel outbreak enterovirus D68 strain associated with acute flaccid myelitis cases in the USA (2012–14): a retrospective cohort study

AL Greninger, SN Naccache, K Messacar… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Enterovirus D68 was implicated in a widespread outbreak of severe respiratory
illness across the USA in 2014 and has also been reported sporadically in patients with …

A cloud-compatible bioinformatics pipeline for ultrarapid pathogen identification from next-generation sequencing of clinical samples

SN Naccache, S Federman, N Veeraraghavan… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Unbiased next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches enable comprehensive pathogen
detection in the clinical microbiology laboratory and have numerous applications for public …

Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2017

GK Amarasinghe, Y Bào, CF Basler, S Bavari, M Beer… - Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
In 2017, the order Mononegavirales was expanded by the inclusion of a total of 69 novel
species. Five new rhabdovirus genera and one new nyamivirus genus were established to …

Next generation sequencing and bioinformatics methodologies for infectious disease research and public health: approaches, applications, and considerations for …

I Maljkovic Berry, MC Melendrez… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Next generation sequencing (NGS) combined with bioinformatics has successfully been
used in a vast array of analyses for infectious disease research of public health relevance …

Modern clinical microbiology: new challenges and solutions

PE Fournier, M Drancourt, P Colson… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
In the twenty-first century, the clinical microbiology laboratory plays a central part in
optimizing the management of infectious diseases and surveying local and global …