Dr Rory Gunson
- Honorary Professor (School of Infection & Immunity)
Publications
2024
Ho, A. , McInnes, N., Blunsum, A., Quinn, J., Lynagh, D., Murphy, M. E., Gunson, R., MacConnachie, A. and Lowe, D. J. (2024) Near real-time severe acute respiratory illness surveillance characterising influenza and Covid-19 epidemiology in hospitalised adults, 2021-22. Journal of Infection, 89(6), 106338. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2024.106338) (PMID:39489182)
Ahovègbé, L. et al. (2024) Hepatitis C virus diversity and treatment outcomes in Benin; a prospective cohort study. Lancet Microbe, 5(7), pp. 697-706. (doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(24)00041-7) (PMID:38889738)
2023
Pascall, D. J. et al. (2023) Directions of change in intrinsic case severity across successive SARS-CoV-2 variant waves have been inconsistent. Journal of Infection, 87(2), pp. 128-135. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2023.05.019) (PMID:37270070) (PMCID:PMC10234362)
Li, K. K., Lau, B. , Suárez, N. M., Camiolo, S. , Gunson, R., Davison, A. J. and Orton, R. J. (2023) Direct nanopore sequencing of human cytomegalovirus genomes from high-viral-load clinical samples. Viruses, 15(6), 1248. (doi: 10.3390/v15061248) (PMID:37376548) (PMCID:PMC10303703)
Ho, A. et al. (2023) Adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with non-A-E hepatitis. Nature, 617(7961), pp. 555-563. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05948-2) (PMID:36996873)
Morfopoulou, S. et al. (2023) Genomic investigations of unexplained acute hepatitis in children. Nature, 617(7961), pp. 564-573. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06003-w) (PMID:36996872)
Pascall, D. J. et al. (2023) The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant was associated with increased clinical severity of COVID-19 in Scotland: a genomics-based retrospective cohort analysis. PLoS ONE, 18(4), e0284187. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284187) (PMID:37053201) (PMCID:PMC10101505)
Manali, M. et al. (2023) SARS-CoV-2 evolution and patient immunological history shape the breadth and potency of antibody-mediated immunity. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 227(1), pp. 40-49. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac332) (PMID:35920058) (PMCID:PMC9384671)
2022
Vink, E. et al. (2022) Viral co-infections in hospitalised COVID-19 patients recruited to the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9(11), ofac531. (doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac531) (PMID:36381618) (PMCID:PMC9619746)
Shah, R. et al. (2022) Characterisation of a hepatitis C virus subtype 2a cluster in Scottish PWID with a suboptimal response to glecaprevir/pibrentasvir treatment. Viruses, 14(8), 1678. (doi: 10.3390/v14081678) (PMID:36016300) (PMCID:PMC9416734)
Willett, B. J. et al. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway. Nature Microbiology, 7(8), pp. 1161-1179. (doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01143-7) (PMID:35798890) (PMCID:PMC9352574)
Nickbakhsh, S. et al. (2022) Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in a university outbreak setting and implications for public health planning. Scientific Reports, 12, 11735. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-15661-1) (PMID:35853960) (PMCID:PMC9296497)
Aggarwal, D. et al. (2022) Genomic assessment of quarantine measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 importation and transmission. Nature Communications, 13, 1012. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28371-z) (PMID:35197443) (PMCID:PMC8866425)
Aggarwal, D. et al. (2022) Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in a UK university identifies dynamics of transmission. Nature Communications, 13, 751. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27942-w) (PMID:35136068) (PMCID:PMC8826310)
Twohig, K. A. et al. (2022) Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 22(1), pp. 35-42. (doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00475-8) (PMID:34461056) (PMCID:PMC8397301)
2021
Vöhringer, H. S. et al. (2021) Genomic reconstruction of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in England. Nature, 600(7889), pp. 506-511. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04069-y) (PMID:34649268) (PMCID:PMC8674138)
Witkowska McConnell, W. et al. (2021) Paper microfluidic implementation of loop mediated isothermal amplification for early diagnosis of hepatitis C virus. Nature Communications, 12, 6994. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27076-z) (PMID:34848705) (PMCID:PMC8632961)
Li, K. K. et al. (2021) Genetic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in renal dialysis units - a high risk community-hospital interface. Journal of Infection, 83(1), pp. 96-103. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.04.020) (PMID:33895226) (PMCID:PMC8061788)
Conway, D.I. et al. (2021) SARS-CoV-2 positivity in asymptomatic-screened dental patients. Journal of Dental Research, 100(6), pp. 583-590. (doi: 10.1177/00220345211004849) (PMID:33779355) (PMCID:PMC8138329)
Graham, M. S. et al. (2021) Changes in symptomatology, reinfection, and transmissibility associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7: an ecological study. Lancet Public Health, 6(5), e335-e345. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00055-4)
Volz, E. et al. (2021) Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England. Nature, 593(7858), pp. 266-269. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03470-x) (PMID:33767447)
Trayner, K. M.A. et al. (2021) High willingness to use drug consumption rooms among people who inject drugs in Scotland: findings from a national bio-behavioural survey among people who inject drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 90, 102731. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102731) (PMID:32331859) (PMCID:PMC8063177)
Hughes, E. C. et al. (2021) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 serosurveillance in a patient population reveals differences in virus exposure and antibody-mediated immunity according to host demography and healthcare setting. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 223(6), pp. 971-980. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa788) (PMID:33367847) (PMCID:PMC7798933)
Rihn, S. J. et al. (2021) A plasmid DNA-launched SARS-CoV-2 reverse genetics system and coronavirus toolkit for COVID-19 research. PLoS Biology, 19(2), e3001091. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001091) (PMID:33630831) (PMCID:PMC7906417)
Da Silva Filipe, A. et al. (2021) Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 from mainland Europe into Scotland. Nature Microbiology, 6(1), pp. 112-122. (doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-00838-z) (PMID:33349681)
2020
Davis, C. et al. (2020) Postexposure prophylaxis with rVSV-ZEBOV following exposure to a patient with Ebola virus disease relapse in the United Kingdom: an operational, safety, and immunogenicity report. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(11), pp. 2872-2879. (doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1165) (PMID:31784751) (PMCID:PMC7778350)
Nickbakhsh, S. , Ho, A. , Marques, D. F.P., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2020) Reply to Li et al. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222(4), pp. 696-698. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa322) (PMID:32497172)
Nickbakhsh, S. , Ho, A. , Marques, D. F.P., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2020) Epidemiology of seasonal coronaviruses: establishing the context for the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222(1), pp. 17-25. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa185) (PMID:32296837) (PMCID:PMC7184404)
Suarez, N. M. et al. (2020) Whole-genome approach to assessing human cytomegalovirus dynamics in transplant patients undergoing antiviral therapy. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10, 267. (doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00267)
Trayner, K. M. A., McAuley, A., Palmateer, N. E., Goldberg, D., Shepherd, S. J., Gunson, R., Tweed, E. , Priyadarshi, S., Milosevic, C. and Hutchinson, S. J. (2020) Increased risk of HIV and other drug-related harms associated with injecting in public places: national bio-behavioural survey of people who inject drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 77, 102663. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102663) (PMID:31981949) (PMCID:PMC8330401)
2019
Nickbakhsh, S. et al. (2019) Virus-virus interactions impact the population dynamics of influenza and the common cold. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(52), pp. 27142-27150. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911083116) (PMID:31843887) (PMCID:PMC6936719)
Mair, C. , Nickbakhsh, S. , Reeve, R. , McMenamin, J., Reynolds, A., Gunson, R. N., Murcia, P. R. and Matthews, L. (2019) Estimation of temporal covariances in pathogen dynamics using Bayesian multivariate autoregressive models. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(12), e1007492. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007492) (PMID:31834896) (PMCID:PMC6934324)
Jerome, H. et al. (2019) Metagenomic next-generation sequencing aids the diagnosis of viral infections in febrile returning travellers. Journal of Infection, 79(4), pp. 383-388. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2019.08.003) (PMID:31398374) (PMCID:PMC6859916)
Maabar, M., Davison, A. J. , Vučak, M., Thorburn, F., Murcia, P. , Gunson, R., Palmarini, M. and Hughes, J. (2019) DisCVR: rapid viral diagnosis from high-throughput sequencing data. Virus Evolution, 5(2), vez033. (doi: 10.1093/ve/vez033) (PMID:31528358) (PMCID:PMC6735924)
2017
Goldstein, E. J., Harvey, W. T., Wilkie, G. S., Shepherd, S. J., MacLean, A. R., Murcia, P. R. and Gunson, R. N. (2017) Integrating patient and whole-genome sequencing data to provide insights into the epidemiology of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) viruses. Microbial Genomics, 4, (doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000137) (PMID:29310750) (PMCID:PMC5857367)
Shepherd, S. J., Black, H., Thomson, E. C. and Gunson, R. N. (2017) HIV positive patient with GBS-like syndrome. JMM Case Reports, 4(8), e005107. (doi: 10.1099/jmmcr.0.005107) (PMID:29026634) (PMCID:PMC5610709)
2016
Weir, A. et al. (2016) Hepatitis C reinfection following treatment induced viral clearance among people who have injected drugs. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 165, pp. 53-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.05.012) (PMID:27268294)
Bulteel, N. et al. (2016) Factors associated with spontaneous clearance of chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Journal of Hepatology, 65(2), pp. 266-272. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.04.030) (PMID:27155531)
Nickbakhsh, S. , Thorburn, F., Von Wissmann, B., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2016) Extensive multiplex PCR diagnostics reveals new insights into the epidemiology of viral respiratory infections. Epidemiology and Infection, 144(10), pp. 2064-2076. (doi: 10.1017/S0950268816000339) (PMID:26931455)
2015
Jarchow-Macdonald, A. A., Halley, S., Chandler, D., Gunson, R., Shepherd, S. and Parcell, B. J. (2015) First report of an astrovirus type 5 gastroenteritis outbreak in a residential elderly care home identified by sequencing. Journal of Clinical Virology, 73, pp. 115-119. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.11.006) (PMID:26590691)
McNaughton, A. L., Cameron, I. D., Wignall-Fleming, E. B., Biek, R. , McLauchlan, J. , Gunson, R. N., Templeton, K., Tan, H. M.-L. and McWilliam Leitch, E. C. (2015) Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the introduction of hepatitis C virus into Scotland and its subsequent regional transmission. Journal of Virology, 89(22), pp. 11223-11232. (doi: 10.1128/JVI.02106-15) (PMID:26311892) (PMCID:PMC4645645)
Thorburn, F., Bennett, S., Modha, S., Murdoch, D., Gunson, R. and Murcia, P. (2015) Erratum to 'the use of next generation sequencing in the diagnosis and typing of respiratory infections' [J. Clin. Virol. 69 (2015) 96–100]. Journal of Clinical Virology, 70, p. 128. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.06.101)
Thorburn, F., Bennett, S., Modha, S. , Murdoch, D., Gunson, R. and Murcia, P. R. (2015) The use of next generation sequencing in the diagnosis and typing of respiratory infections. Journal of Clinical Virology, 69, pp. 96-100. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.06.082) (PMID:26209388) (PMCID:PMC4533236)
Bennett, S., Li, K. and Gunson, R.N. (2015) Hepatitis E virus infection presenting with paraesthesia. Scottish Medical Journal, 60(2), e27-e29. (doi: 10.1177/0036933015572093) (PMID:25663032)
Shepherd, S. J., Abdelrahman, T., MacLean, A. R., Thomson, E. C. , Aitken, C. and Gunson, R. N. (2015) Prevalence of HCV NS3 pre-treatment resistance associated amino acid variants within a Scottish cohort. Journal of Clinical Virology, 65, pp. 50-53. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.02.005) (PMID:25766988) (PMCID:PMC4728298)
Xu, G., Gunson, R. N., Cooper, J. and Reboud, J. (2015) Rapid ultrasonic isothermal amplification of DNA with multiplexed melting analysis – applications in the clinical diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases. Chemical Communications, 51(13), pp. 2589-2592. (doi: 10.1039/c4cc08389j) (PMID:25569801)
Li, K. K., Gunson, R. N., Lush, C. and Aitken, C. (2015) Deranged liver function tests in a patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Journal of Clinical Virology, 62, pp. 118-121. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2014.08.026)
Bennett, S., MacLean, A. R., Reynolds, A., von Wissmann, B. and Gunson, R. (2015) False positive influenza A and B detections in clinical samples due to contamination with live attenuated influenza vaccine. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 64(4), pp. 466-468. (doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.000035) (PMID:25657303)
2014
McAllister, G. et al. (2014) Uptake of hepatitis C specialist services and treatment following diagnosis by dried blood spot in Scotland. Journal of Clinical Virology, 61(3), pp. 359-364. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2014.09.004) (PMID:25264306)
McNaughton, A.L., Thomson, E.C. , Templeton, K., Gunson, R.N. and McWilliam Leitch, E.C. (2014) Mixed genotype hepatitis C infections and implications for treatment. Hepatology, 59(3), p. 1209. (doi: 10.1002/hep.26544) (PMID:23744801) (PMCID:PMC4296219)
2013
Bradley-Stewart, A., Jolly, L., Adamson, W., Gunson, R., Frew-Gillespie, C., Templeton, K., Aitken, C., Carman, W., Cameron, S. and McSharry, C. (2013) Cytokine responses in patients with mild or severe influenza A(H1N1)pdm09. Journal of Clinical Virology, 58(1), pp. 100-107. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2013.05.011)
Articles
Ho, A. , McInnes, N., Blunsum, A., Quinn, J., Lynagh, D., Murphy, M. E., Gunson, R., MacConnachie, A. and Lowe, D. J. (2024) Near real-time severe acute respiratory illness surveillance characterising influenza and Covid-19 epidemiology in hospitalised adults, 2021-22. Journal of Infection, 89(6), 106338. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2024.106338) (PMID:39489182)
Ahovègbé, L. et al. (2024) Hepatitis C virus diversity and treatment outcomes in Benin; a prospective cohort study. Lancet Microbe, 5(7), pp. 697-706. (doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(24)00041-7) (PMID:38889738)
Pascall, D. J. et al. (2023) Directions of change in intrinsic case severity across successive SARS-CoV-2 variant waves have been inconsistent. Journal of Infection, 87(2), pp. 128-135. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2023.05.019) (PMID:37270070) (PMCID:PMC10234362)
Li, K. K., Lau, B. , Suárez, N. M., Camiolo, S. , Gunson, R., Davison, A. J. and Orton, R. J. (2023) Direct nanopore sequencing of human cytomegalovirus genomes from high-viral-load clinical samples. Viruses, 15(6), 1248. (doi: 10.3390/v15061248) (PMID:37376548) (PMCID:PMC10303703)
Ho, A. et al. (2023) Adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with non-A-E hepatitis. Nature, 617(7961), pp. 555-563. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05948-2) (PMID:36996873)
Morfopoulou, S. et al. (2023) Genomic investigations of unexplained acute hepatitis in children. Nature, 617(7961), pp. 564-573. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06003-w) (PMID:36996872)
Pascall, D. J. et al. (2023) The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant was associated with increased clinical severity of COVID-19 in Scotland: a genomics-based retrospective cohort analysis. PLoS ONE, 18(4), e0284187. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284187) (PMID:37053201) (PMCID:PMC10101505)
Manali, M. et al. (2023) SARS-CoV-2 evolution and patient immunological history shape the breadth and potency of antibody-mediated immunity. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 227(1), pp. 40-49. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac332) (PMID:35920058) (PMCID:PMC9384671)
Vink, E. et al. (2022) Viral co-infections in hospitalised COVID-19 patients recruited to the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9(11), ofac531. (doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac531) (PMID:36381618) (PMCID:PMC9619746)
Shah, R. et al. (2022) Characterisation of a hepatitis C virus subtype 2a cluster in Scottish PWID with a suboptimal response to glecaprevir/pibrentasvir treatment. Viruses, 14(8), 1678. (doi: 10.3390/v14081678) (PMID:36016300) (PMCID:PMC9416734)
Willett, B. J. et al. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway. Nature Microbiology, 7(8), pp. 1161-1179. (doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01143-7) (PMID:35798890) (PMCID:PMC9352574)
Nickbakhsh, S. et al. (2022) Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in a university outbreak setting and implications for public health planning. Scientific Reports, 12, 11735. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-15661-1) (PMID:35853960) (PMCID:PMC9296497)
Aggarwal, D. et al. (2022) Genomic assessment of quarantine measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 importation and transmission. Nature Communications, 13, 1012. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28371-z) (PMID:35197443) (PMCID:PMC8866425)
Aggarwal, D. et al. (2022) Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in a UK university identifies dynamics of transmission. Nature Communications, 13, 751. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27942-w) (PMID:35136068) (PMCID:PMC8826310)
Twohig, K. A. et al. (2022) Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 22(1), pp. 35-42. (doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00475-8) (PMID:34461056) (PMCID:PMC8397301)
Vöhringer, H. S. et al. (2021) Genomic reconstruction of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in England. Nature, 600(7889), pp. 506-511. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04069-y) (PMID:34649268) (PMCID:PMC8674138)
Witkowska McConnell, W. et al. (2021) Paper microfluidic implementation of loop mediated isothermal amplification for early diagnosis of hepatitis C virus. Nature Communications, 12, 6994. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27076-z) (PMID:34848705) (PMCID:PMC8632961)
Li, K. K. et al. (2021) Genetic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in renal dialysis units - a high risk community-hospital interface. Journal of Infection, 83(1), pp. 96-103. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.04.020) (PMID:33895226) (PMCID:PMC8061788)
Conway, D.I. et al. (2021) SARS-CoV-2 positivity in asymptomatic-screened dental patients. Journal of Dental Research, 100(6), pp. 583-590. (doi: 10.1177/00220345211004849) (PMID:33779355) (PMCID:PMC8138329)
Graham, M. S. et al. (2021) Changes in symptomatology, reinfection, and transmissibility associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7: an ecological study. Lancet Public Health, 6(5), e335-e345. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00055-4)
Volz, E. et al. (2021) Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England. Nature, 593(7858), pp. 266-269. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03470-x) (PMID:33767447)
Trayner, K. M.A. et al. (2021) High willingness to use drug consumption rooms among people who inject drugs in Scotland: findings from a national bio-behavioural survey among people who inject drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 90, 102731. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102731) (PMID:32331859) (PMCID:PMC8063177)
Hughes, E. C. et al. (2021) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 serosurveillance in a patient population reveals differences in virus exposure and antibody-mediated immunity according to host demography and healthcare setting. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 223(6), pp. 971-980. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa788) (PMID:33367847) (PMCID:PMC7798933)
Rihn, S. J. et al. (2021) A plasmid DNA-launched SARS-CoV-2 reverse genetics system and coronavirus toolkit for COVID-19 research. PLoS Biology, 19(2), e3001091. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001091) (PMID:33630831) (PMCID:PMC7906417)
Da Silva Filipe, A. et al. (2021) Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 from mainland Europe into Scotland. Nature Microbiology, 6(1), pp. 112-122. (doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-00838-z) (PMID:33349681)
Davis, C. et al. (2020) Postexposure prophylaxis with rVSV-ZEBOV following exposure to a patient with Ebola virus disease relapse in the United Kingdom: an operational, safety, and immunogenicity report. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(11), pp. 2872-2879. (doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1165) (PMID:31784751) (PMCID:PMC7778350)
Nickbakhsh, S. , Ho, A. , Marques, D. F.P., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2020) Reply to Li et al. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222(4), pp. 696-698. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa322) (PMID:32497172)
Nickbakhsh, S. , Ho, A. , Marques, D. F.P., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2020) Epidemiology of seasonal coronaviruses: establishing the context for the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222(1), pp. 17-25. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa185) (PMID:32296837) (PMCID:PMC7184404)
Suarez, N. M. et al. (2020) Whole-genome approach to assessing human cytomegalovirus dynamics in transplant patients undergoing antiviral therapy. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10, 267. (doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00267)
Trayner, K. M. A., McAuley, A., Palmateer, N. E., Goldberg, D., Shepherd, S. J., Gunson, R., Tweed, E. , Priyadarshi, S., Milosevic, C. and Hutchinson, S. J. (2020) Increased risk of HIV and other drug-related harms associated with injecting in public places: national bio-behavioural survey of people who inject drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 77, 102663. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102663) (PMID:31981949) (PMCID:PMC8330401)
Nickbakhsh, S. et al. (2019) Virus-virus interactions impact the population dynamics of influenza and the common cold. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(52), pp. 27142-27150. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911083116) (PMID:31843887) (PMCID:PMC6936719)
Mair, C. , Nickbakhsh, S. , Reeve, R. , McMenamin, J., Reynolds, A., Gunson, R. N., Murcia, P. R. and Matthews, L. (2019) Estimation of temporal covariances in pathogen dynamics using Bayesian multivariate autoregressive models. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(12), e1007492. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007492) (PMID:31834896) (PMCID:PMC6934324)
Jerome, H. et al. (2019) Metagenomic next-generation sequencing aids the diagnosis of viral infections in febrile returning travellers. Journal of Infection, 79(4), pp. 383-388. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2019.08.003) (PMID:31398374) (PMCID:PMC6859916)
Maabar, M., Davison, A. J. , Vučak, M., Thorburn, F., Murcia, P. , Gunson, R., Palmarini, M. and Hughes, J. (2019) DisCVR: rapid viral diagnosis from high-throughput sequencing data. Virus Evolution, 5(2), vez033. (doi: 10.1093/ve/vez033) (PMID:31528358) (PMCID:PMC6735924)
Goldstein, E. J., Harvey, W. T., Wilkie, G. S., Shepherd, S. J., MacLean, A. R., Murcia, P. R. and Gunson, R. N. (2017) Integrating patient and whole-genome sequencing data to provide insights into the epidemiology of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) viruses. Microbial Genomics, 4, (doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000137) (PMID:29310750) (PMCID:PMC5857367)
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Research datasets
2021
Witkowska McConnell, W. , Davis, C., Sabir, S. R., Garrett, A. , Bradley-Stewart, A., Jajesniak, P., Reboud, J. , Xu, G., Yang, Z. , Gunson, R., Thomson, E. and Cooper, J. (2021) Loop mediated isothermal amplification as a powerful tool for early diagnosis of hepatitis C virus. [Data Collection]