Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases 3 ► Epidemiology/ Outbreaks/ Transmission

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 34  Number 25  June 25 - July 2, 2015

Epidemiology/ Outbreaks/ Transmission

Temporal and spatial analysis of the 2014-2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa.
Carroll MW et al. Nature 2015 Jun 17.

Ebola virus epidemiology, transmission, and evolution during seven months in Sierra Leone.
Park DJ et al. Cell 2015 Jun 18. (7) 1516-26 (CDC Author)

Evidence of self-sustaining drug resistant HIV-1 lineages among untreated patients in the United Kingdom
Mbisa JL, et al. Clin Infect Dis, May 19, 2015.

Detection of livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 in retail pork, United Kingdom, February 2015
Hadjirin NF, et al. Eurosurveillance 2015;20(24):pii=21156.

Diverse genotypes of Yersinia pestis caused plague in Madagascar in 2007.
Riehm JM et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015 Jun (6) e0003844

The role of human transportation networks in mediating the genetic structure of seasonal influenza in the United States.
Bozick BA et al. PLoS Pathog. 2015 Jun (6) e1004898

Investigating fungal outbreaks in the 21st century.
Litvintseva AP et al. PLoS Pathog. 2015 May (5) e1004804 (CDC Author)

Molecular epidemiology and characterization of an outbreak causing Klebsiella pneumoniae clone carrying chromosomally located bla CTX-M-15 at a German University-Hospital.
Mshana SE et al. BMC Microbiol. 2015 122

An outbreak of colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in the Netherlands (July to December 2013), with inter-institutional spread.
Weterings V et al. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jun 12.

Airborne transmission of melioidosis to humans from environmental aerosols contaminated with B. pseudomallei.
Chen Pei-S et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015 Jun (6) e0003834

First report of autochthonous transmission of Zika virus in Brazil.
Zanluca C et al. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 2015 09/06 (4) 569-572

Assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in Oxfordshire, UK, 2007-12, with whole pathogen genome sequences: an observational study.
Walker TM et al. Lancet Respir Med 2014 Apr (4) 285-92

Outbreak of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal infection in a teaching hospital in mainland China.
Zhang XY et al. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2015 Jul (7) 4349-51