Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases ► Detection and Diagnosis

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 34  Number 20  May 21-28, 2015

Detection and Diagnosis

Comparison of diagnostic techniques for the detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts in animal samples.
Ezzaty MM et al. Exp. Parasitol. 2015 Apr-May 14-20

Rapid whole genome sequencing of M. tuberculosis directly from clinical samples.
Brown Amanda C et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 May 13.

Sensitive detection of norovirus using phage nanoparticle reporters in lateral-flow assay.
Hagström AEV et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (5) e0126571

Detection of low-level mixed-population drug resistance in mycobacterium tuberculosis using high fidelity amplicon sequencing.
Colman RE et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (5) e0126626

Multiplex gastrointestinal pathogen panels: implications for infection control.
Rand KH et al. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jun (2) 154-7

Multiplex real-time PCR assay using TaqMan probes for the identification of Trypanosoma cruzi DTUs in biological and clinical samples. 
Cura CI et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015 May (5) e0003765

International external quality assessment study for molecular detection of Lassa virus 
Nikisins S, et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015; 9(5): e0003793.

Direct detection of influenza A/B in less than twenty minutes using a commercially-available rapid PCR assay. 
Binnicker MJ et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Apr 29.