Application of shotgun metagenomics sequencing and targeted sequence capture to detect circulating porcine viruses in the Dutch-German border region.

Porcine viruses have been emerging in recent decades, threatening animal and human health, as well as economic stability for pig farmers worldwide. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) can detect and characterize known and unknown viruses but has limited sensitivity when an unbiased approach, such as shotgun metagenomics sequencing, is used. To increase the sensitivity of NGS for the detection of viruses, we applied and evaluated a broad viral targeted sequence capture (TSC) panel and compared it to an unbiased shotgun metagenomic approach.

Occurrence of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae in multiplier pig herds in Switzerland.

Objective: This research was aimed to determine the occurrence of Brachyspira (B.) hyodysenteriae in Swiss multiplier pig herds.

Materials And Methods: In a pilot study a direct real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method for B.

Prognostic biomarkers for HNSCC using quantitative real-time PCR and microarray analysis: β-tubulin isotypes and the p53 interactome.

In 2014, more than 40,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) and nearly 8400 people will die of the disease (www.cancer.org/acs/groups).

Regulation of tubulin expression by micro-RNAs: implications for drug resistance.

In this chapter, we provide an overview of methods for studying micro-RNA regulation of tubulin isotypes. In clinical studies, β-tubulin isotypes were found to be biomarkers for tumor formation. In addition, because changes in the levels of specific β-tubulin isotypes alter the stability of microtubules in mitotic spindles in vitro, it has been hypothesized that changes in microtubule protein levels could contribute to chemotherapy resistance.