Next-generation sequencing for confronting virus pandemics

J Quer, S Colomer-Castell, C Campos, C Andrés… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Virus pandemics have happened, are happening and will happen again. In recent decades,
the rate of zoonotic viral spillover into humans has accelerated, mirroring the expansion of …

Drug resistance mutations in HIV: new bioinformatics approaches and challenges

L Blassel, A Zhukova, CJ Villabona-Arenas… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Machine learning is increasingly used to predict and understand drug resistance
in HIV.•Phylogenetics helps to track the emergence and spread of HIV drug resistance …

Exploiting genomics to mitigate the public health impact of antimicrobial resistance

C Waddington, ME Carey, CJ Boinett, E Higginson… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, which has been largely
driven by the excessive use of antimicrobials. Control measures are urgently needed to slow …

A case for investment in clinical metagenomics in low-income and middle-income countries

G Marais, D Hardie, A Brink - The Lancet Microbe, 2023 - thelancet.com
Clinical metagenomics is the diagnostic approach with the broadest capacity to detect both
known and novel pathogens. Clinical metagenomics is costly to run and requires …

[HTML][HTML] Technologies for HIV-1 drug resistance testing: inventory and needs

KJ Metzner - Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 2022 - journals.lww.com
The use of NGS technologies on HIV DR testing will allow unprecedented insights into
genomic structures of virus populations that may be of immediate relevance to both clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a post-pandemic future for global pathogen genome sequencing

JT Ladner, JW Sahl - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Pathogen genome sequencing has become a routine part of our response to active
outbreaks of infectious disease and should be an important part of our preparations for …

HIV drug resistance in the era of contemporary antiretroviral therapy: A clinical perspective

A Carr, NE Mackie, R Paredes… - Antiviral …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Contemporary antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens have high barriers to the development
of drug resistance. However, resistance to earlier antiretrovirals and uncommon cases of …

The Effect of treatment-associated mutations on HIV replication and transmission cycles

MM Johnson, CE Jones, DN Clark - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
HIV/AIDS mortality has been decreasing over the last decade. While promising, this
decrease correlated directly with increased use of antiretroviral drugs. As a natural …

Roadmap for achieving universal antiretroviral treatment

S Sokhela, S Lalla-Edward, MJ Siedner… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Modern antiretroviral therapy safely, potently, and durably suppresses human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that, if left untreated, predictably causes acquired …

[HTML][HTML] Global update on measles molecular epidemiology

B Bankamp, G Kim, D Hart, A Beck, M Ben Mamou… - Vaccines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Molecular surveillance of circulating measles variants serves as a line of evidence for the
absence of endemic circulation and provides a means to track chains of transmission …