A role for neutrophils in viral respiratory disease

JV Camp, CB Jonsson - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Neutrophils are immune cells that are well known to be present during many types of lung
diseases associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and may contribute to …

Application of next-generation sequencing technologies in virology

AD Radford, D Chapman, L Dixon… - Journal of General …, 2012 - microbiologyresearch.org
The progress of science is punctuated by the advent of revolutionary technologies that
provide new ways and scales to formulate scientific questions and advance knowledge …

Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK

L Du Plessis, JT McCrone, AE Zarebski, V Hill, C Ruis… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The United Kingdom's COVID-19 epidemic during early 2020 was one of world's largest and
was unusually well represented by virus genomic sampling. We determined the fine-scale …

Self-amplifying RNA vaccines give equivalent protection against influenza to mRNA vaccines but at much lower doses

AB Vogel, L Lambert, E Kinnear, D Busse, S Erbar… - Molecular Therapy, 2018 - cell.com
New vaccine platforms are needed to address the time gap between pathogen emergence
and vaccine licensure. RNA-based vaccines are an attractive candidate for this role: they are …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated national scale SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance network

T COVID - The Lancet. Microbe, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) was
launched in March, 2020, with£ 20 million support from UK Research and Innovation, the UK …

Molecular epidemiology and evolution of influenza viruses circulating within European swine between 2009 and 2013

SJ Watson, P Langat, SM Reid, TTY Lam… - Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The emergence in humans of the A (H1N1) pdm09 influenza virus, a complex reassortant
virus of swine origin, highlighted the importance of worldwide influenza virus surveillance in …

Recent past, present, and future of the food microbiome

F De Filippis, E Parente, D Ercolini - Annual Review of Food …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Sequencing technologies have deeply changed our approach to the study of food microbial
communities. This review describes recent exploitations of high-throughput sequencing …

Spatial transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza in the US

JR Gog, S Ballesteros, C Viboud… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic provides a unique opportunity for detailed examination
of the spatial dynamics of an emerging pathogen. In the US, the pandemic was …

Recent advances in diagnostic testing for viral infections

S Souf - Bioscience Horizons: The International Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Viral infectious diseases represent an important portion of global public health concerns with
thousands of deaths annually. From serious pandemics and highly contagious infections to …

Viral population analysis and minority-variant detection using short read next-generation sequencing

SJ Watson, MRA Welkers… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
RNA viruses within infected individuals exist as a population of evolutionary-related variants.
Owing to evolutionary change affecting the constitution of this population, the frequency …