Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases ► Epidemiology, Outbreaks, Transmission

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 34  Number 1  January 8-15, 2015

Epidemiology, Outbreaks, Transmission

Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) producing K. pneumoniae at a single institution: insights into endemicity from whole genome sequencing
Mathers AJ, et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother, Jan 5, 2015.

Dynamics of MDR Enterobacter cloacae outbreaks in a neonatal unit in Nepal: insights using wider sampling frames and next-generation sequencing
Stoesser N, et al. J Antimicrob Chemother, Jan 3, 2015.

Genomic epidemiology of the Haitian cholera outbreak: a single introduction followed by rapid, extensive, and continued spread  characterized the onset of the epidemic 
Eppinger M, et al. mBio 2014; 5(6): e01721-14.

Pneumonic plague outbreak, northern Madagascar, 2011
Richard V, et al. Emerg Infect Dis 2015; 21(1): 8-15.

Genetic analysis and characterization of wild poliovirus type 1 during sustained transmission in a population with >95% vaccine coverage, Israel 2013
Shulman LM, et al. Clin Infect Dis, Dec 30, 2014.

Comment:
Emerging problems impeding the elimination of the last polioviruses: silent circulation of wild strains in a well-immunized population
Delpeyroux F, Colbère-Garapin F. Clin Infect Dis, Dec 30, 2014.

Phylogenetic studies of transmission dynamics in generalized HIV epidemics: an essential tool where the burden is greatest?
Dennis AM1, et al. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2014;67(2):181-95.

Investigating the zoonotic origin of the West African Ebola epidemic
Saez AM, et al. EMBO Mol Med 2014; 7: 17-23.

A case of long‐term excretion and subclinical infection with MERS‐coronavirus in a health care worker
Al-Gethamy M, et al. Clin Infect Dis, Dec 16, 2014.

Epidemic and molecular evolution of human bocavirus in hospitalized children with acute respiratory tract infection
Lu QB, et al. Euro J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2015; 34(1): 75-81.

Pathological and molecular diagnosis of the 2013 African swine fever outbreak in Lusaka, Zambia
Yabe J, et al. Trop Anim Health Prod, Dec 23, 2014.