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• Infection clusters can elevate risk of diagnostic target failure for detection of SARS-CoV-2.

  Authors:Denise Lopez, Jill Roberts, Marie Bourgeois, Joshua Kootstra, Sharon Minnick, Allison Black, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 16, 20224,596 words Report 1600LThe C29197T mutation is one of 4 point mutations known to cause N-gene target failure (NGTF) in the Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 and Xpert Omni SARS-CoV-2 assays from Cepheid (Sunnyvale, CA). We describe a high local...

• Ten recommendations for supporting open pathogen genomic analysis in public health.

  Authors:Allison Black, Duncan R. MacCannell, Thomas R. Sibley, and Trevor BedfordFrom:Nature Medicine (Vol. 26, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20208,926 words Viewpoint essay 1440LIncreasingly, public-health agencies are using pathogen genomic sequence data to support surveillance and epidemiological investigations. As access to whole-genome sequencing has grown, greater amounts of molecular data...

• Tracing the Origin, Spread, and Molecular Evolution of Zika Virus in Puerto Rico, 2016-2017.

  Authors:Gilberto A. Santiago, Chaney C. Kalinich, Fabiola Cruz-Lopez, Glenda L. Gonzalez, Betzabel Flores, Aaron Hentoff, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 27, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20211,596 words Report 1770LWe reconstructed the 2016-2017 Zika virus epidemic in Puerto Rico by using complete genomes to uncover the epidemic's origin, spread, and evolutionary dynamics. Our study revealed that the epidemic was propelled by...

• Integration of genomic sequencing into the response to the Ebola virus outbreak in Nord Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  Authors:Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Allison Black, Daniel B. Mukadi, James Hadfield, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, Catherine B. Pratt, et al.From:Nature Medicine (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20216,713 words Report 1540LOn 1 August 2018, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared its tenth Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak. To aid the epidemiologic response, the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) implemented an...

• Ebola Virus Transmission Initiated by Relapse of Systemic Ebola Virus Disease.

  Authors:Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, Catherine Pratt, Mbusa Mutafali-Ruffin, Matthias G. Pauthner, Faustin Bile, Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye, et al.From:The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 384, Issue 13) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 1, 202150 words Clinical report

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• Repeated introductions and intensive community transmission fueled a mumps virus outbreak in Washington State.

  Authors:Louise H Moncla, Allison Black, Chase DeBolt, Misty Lang, Nicholas R Graff, Ailyn C Pérez-Osorio, et al.From:eLife (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 19, 202122,131 words Article 1540LIn 2016/2017, Washington State experienced a mumps outbreak despite high childhood vaccination rates, with cases more frequently detected among school-aged children and members of the Marshallese community. We sequenced...