Rachel J. Williams

This study evaluates antiviral drug synergy and mutational signatures of RdRp inhibitors against RSV and hPIV in epithelial cell models and primary airway cultures.

This study compares metagenomics and targeted approaches for virus detection, finding that targeted methods improve sensitivity while untargeted ONT offers better specificity.

The paper shows that HIV-positive mothers have compartmentalized CMV genotypes, with three infants transmitting a single closely related maternal cervix strain, and identifies gene similarities linked to tissue-tropism and immunomodulation.

Three multiplex tiling protocols using a single primer set recover long amplicons of SARS-CoV-2 directly from clinical sample total RNA for sequencing on Nanopore, Illumina, or Sanger platforms.

This study compares whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum to sequencing from culture, finding greater genetic diversity in sputum-derived samples.