Patrick McClure

When determining EVD68 cases in late 2018, we noticed CVA6 was the second most prevalent enteroviral type and thus worthy of its own study! Finally published last week, comparing cases spanning the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 @OneVirology mdpi.com/2076-0817/13/1…

Highlights 2/2: 'A novel 1200bp amplicon whole-genome sequencing scheme is presented' 'Lineage 2d genome is closely related to a contemporary local vector-derived sequence' 'Rural adult case with fever, headache, rash, vomiting, nausea, fatigue, and joint pain'

Highlights 1/2: 'The first West Nile virus genome from a human infection since 1937 was discovered in Uganda' 'Pan-genus polymerase chain reaction screening retrospectively detected the West Nile virus genome in immunoglobulin M-negative serum'

Undiagnosed West Nile virus lineage 2d infection in a febrile patient from South-west Uganda, 2018 @OneVirology @UoNLifeSci @UVRIug sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Poliovirus that infected a Chinese child in 2014 may have leaked from a lab science.org/content/articl…

Isolation and characterization of a highly evolved type 3 vaccine-derived poliovirus in China sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Opening a 60-year time capsule: sequences of historical poliovirus cold variants shed a new light on a contemporary strain academic.oup.com/ve/article/10/…

A salute to the fellow clinical wombles making good use of the things they find here: 'Community-based mpox and sexually transmitted disease surveillance using discarded condoms in the global south' thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Students urged to top up vaccines before term time bbc.com/news/articles/…

One of the reasons I've been quiet on Twitter for a few months is because I've been working on something big - something I'm really happy to share now! Pathoplexus.org A new, open-source database for pathogen sequence sharing. 👐🧬🌎 1/12

Viral Olympics! 'Experts choose target pathogens for Olympic wastewater monitoring' cidrap.umn.edu/polio/experts-…

@DrCJ_Houldcroft @Simmonds_Lab Even some DNA viruses in it for you @DrCJ_Houldcroft !

@PostdocPat @Simmonds_Lab Very cool study Pat!

Out last week, a look into some virological time capsules with @Simmonds_Lab - unused contaminated Factor VIII and IX preps from the 1970s - 90s onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jm…

some summary and extra photographs here: wcgvr.org/publications.h…

And huge thanks to @CovidGenomicsUK for funding this work!

Many thanks as always to some great colleagues for helping bring this together, in particular Stuart Astbury, Nadine Holmes, @mattloose @Theo_Tsoleridis! @OneVirology @UoNLifeSci @DeepSeqNotts

Somewhat overdue, but at last, here’s our preprint on amplicon whole genome sequencing for the four seasonal coronaviruses: Vivaldi! #seasonalcoronavirus #amplicon #OC43 #NL63 #229E #HKU1 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…