Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases ▲ Detection and Diagnosis

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 34  Number 5  February 5-12, 2015

Detection and Diagnosis

Sepsis pathogen identification 
Chun K, et al. J Lab Autom. 2015 Jan 28.

A systematic review of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry compared to routine microbiological methods for the time taken to identify microbial organisms from positive blood cultures. 
Dixon P, et al. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2015 Jan 27.

Transcriptional profiling is superior to procalcitonin to discriminate bacterial vs viral lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized adults. 
Suarez NM, et al. J Infect Dis. 2015 Jan 29.

Comment:
Moving towards prime time: host signatures for diagnosis of respiratory infections.
Tsalik E, et al. J Infect Dis. 2015 Jan 29.

Isolation and development of bioluminescent reporter phages for bacterial dysentery. 
Schofield DA, et al. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2015 Feb;34(2):395-403.

Genome sequence of enterovirus d68 and clinical disease, Thailand.
Vongpunsawad S, et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Feb;21(2):384.

Differentiation of acute from chronic hepatitis C virus infection by NS5B deep sequencing: A population-level tool for incidence estimation.
Montoya V, et al. Hepatology. 2015 Feb 2.

A smartphone dongle for diagnosis of infectious diseases at the point of care
Laksanasopin T, et al. Sci Transl Med 2015; 7(273): 273re1. 

Successful detection and genotyping of rubella virus from preserved umbilical cord of patients with congenital rubella syndrome. 
Miyata I, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Feb 15;60(4):605-7.