UCD National Virus Reference Laboratory

Publications

Case Report: Discordant RT-PCR results in a COVID-19 patient challenges clinical decisions.

L. SMITH, L SMYTH, E. FEENEY, K. SCHAFFER and J. HASSAN (2021)

J Infect Dis & Preventive Medicine. Vol. 9 Iss. 2 No: 219; 1-4.

June 2022
Enhancement of antiviral effect of plastic film against SARS-CoV-2: Combining nanomaterials and nanopatterns with scalability for mass manufacturing.

Y. ZHOU, N. FLETCHER, N. ZHANG, J. HASSAN and M.D. GILCHRIST. (2021)

Nano Letters 2021 21 (24), 10149-10156

June 2022
Pathogen detection on microfluidic platforms: Recent advances, challenges, and prospects.

A. JAGANNATH, H. CONG, J. HASSAN, G. GONZALEZ, M. D. GILCHRIST AND N. ZHANG (2022)

Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X. 10. 100134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosx.2022.100134.

June 2022
Circulation of non-polio enteroviruses in 24 EU and EEA countries between 2015 and 2017: a retrospective surveillance study

Laura Bubba PhD, Eeva K Broberg PhD, Aftab Jasir PhD, Prof Peter Simmonds PhD, Heli Harvala PhD on behalf of the Enterovirus study collaborators

December 2019 The Lancet Infectious Diseases

January 2020
Improving preparedness to respond to cross-border hepatitis A outbreaks in the European Union/European Economic Area: towards comparable sequencing of hepatitis A virus.

Enkirch T, Severi E, Vennema H, Thornton L, Dean J, Borg ML, Ciccaglione AR, Bruni R, Christova I, Ngui SL, Balogun K, Němeček V, Kontio M, Takács M, Hettmann A, Korotinska R, Löve A, Avellón A, Muñoz-Chimeno M, de Sousa R, Janta D, Epštein J, Klamer S, Suin V, Aberle SW, Holzmann H, Mellou K, Ederth JL, Sundqvist L, Roque-Afonso AM, Filipović SK, Poljak M, Vold L, Stene-Johansen K, Midgley S, Fischer TK, Faber M, Wenzel JJ, Takkinen J, Leitmeyer K.

Euro Surveill. 2019 Jul;24(28).

July 2019
Ensuring quality in cervical screening programmes based on molecular human papillomavirus testing

Cuschieri K, Schuurman R, Coughlan S. 2019

Cytopathology. 2019 May;30 (3):273-28

May 2019
Discrimination between recent and non-recent HIV infections using routine diagnostic serological assays

Hassan J, Moran J, Murphy G, Mason O, Connell J, De Gascun C

Med Microbiol Immunol. 2019 Mar 11

March 2019
HEVnet: a One Health, collaborative, interdisciplinary network and sequence data repository for enhanced hepatitis E virus molecular typing, characterisation and epidemiological investigations

Mulder AC, Kroneman A, Franz E, Vennema H, Tulen AD, Takkinen J, Hofhuis A, Adlhoch C; Members Of HEVnet

Euro Surveill. 2019 Mar;24(10)

March 2019
Highly sensitive parechovirus CODEHOP PCR amplification of the complete VP1 gene for typing directly from clinical specimens and correct typing based on phylogenetic clustering.

Cremer J, Morley U, Pas S, Wolthers K, Vennema H, Duizer E, Benschop K.

J Med Microbiol. 2019; 68:1194-1203

January 2019
Integration of a recent infection testing algorithm into HIV surveillance in Ireland: improving HIV knowledge to target prevention

Robinson E, Moran J, O'Donnell K, Hassan J, Tuite H, Ennis O, Cooney F, Nugent E, Preston L, O'Dea S, Doyle S, Keating S, Connell J, De Gascun C, Igoe D

Epidemiol Infect. 2019 Jan;147:e136

January 2019

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