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Enterovirus A71 Molecular Epidemiology Study in Senegal: Insights and Impact

Ndack Ndiaye from the Pasteur Institute in Senegal gave a presentation at London Calling 2024 on the “Molecular epidemiology of Enterovirus A71 in Senegal between 2013-2021.” Ndiaye started by providing information about enteroviruses: these positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses continue to re-emerge and have unpredictable pathogenic properties. These viruses are associated with flaccid paralysis. Ndiaye noted […]
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Primer Pools and Phylogeographic Analyses

Today we started sequencing in the Portable Genome Sequencing course! We used several Flongle flow cells on the MinION run. I watched the session by Kame A. Galan-Huerta from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, tonight. They presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “Identification of resistance mutations to direct-acting antiviral agents against […]
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Sequencing of HCV for Identification of Resistance Mutations

Kame A. Galan-Huerta from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon in Mexico presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 a ten minute session entitled “Identification of resistance mutations to direct-acting antiviral agents against HCV in infected subjects in Mexico.” They spoke about adapting protocols to detect the RNA positive sense hepatitis C virus. Glan-Huerta explained […]
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