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Genetic identification of Rickettsial isolates from fatal cases of Brazilian spotted fever and comparison with Rickettsia rickettsii Isolates from the American continents
Labruna MB, et al. J Clin Microbiol 2014; 52(10); 3788-3791

Large-scale whole genome sequencing identifies country-wide spread of an emerging G9P[8] rotavirus strain in Hungary, 2012
Doro RL, et al. Infect Genet Evol, Sep 17, 2014.

Severity of rhinovirus infection in hospitalized adults is unrelated to genotype
McCulloch DJ, et al. Am J Clin Path 2014; 142: 165-172.

Chikungunya emergency in China: microevolution and genetic analysis for a local outbreak
Lu X, et al. Virus Genes. 2014; 48(1): 15-22.

Culture-independent detection and characterisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. africanum in sputum samples using shotgun metagenomics on a benchtop sequencer
Doughty EL, et al. PeerJ, Sep 23, 2014. 10.7717/peerj.585

New DNA sequencing method to diagnose tuberculosis, ScienceDaily, Sep 23

Exploring the potential of next-generation sequencing in detection of respiratory viruses
Prachayangprecha S, et al. J Clin Microbiol 2014; 52(10); 3722-3730.

Sequence-specific antimicrobials using efficiently delivered RNA-guided nucleases
Citorik RJ, et al. Nat Biotechnol, Sep 21, 2014.

Battling superbugs with gene-editing system, Trafton A. Phys.Org, Sep 21

Disentangling human tolerance and resistance against HIV
Regoes RR, et al. PLoS Biol 2014; 12(9): e1001951.

Discovery of modulators of HIV-1 infection from the human peptidome
Munch J, et al. Nat Rev Microbiol 2014; 12: 715–722.

A systematic analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters in the human microbiome reveals a common family of antibiotics
Donia MS, et al. Cell 2014; 158(6): 1402–1414.

Mining the microbiome for medicines: Set a thief…,The Economist, Sep 20

Realising the benefits of pathogen genomics for personal and population health, by Dr Leila Luheshi, PHG Foundation, Oct 2