T. Cassens
4 Papers
11 Citations
T. Cassens is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Biology. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications.
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Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron co-infections and recombination
Alexandre Bolze,S. White,Tina Basler,Andrew Dei Rossi,Pavitra Roychoudhury,Alexander L. Greninger,Kathleen C. Hayashibara,D. R. Wyman,E. Kil,H. Dai,T. Cassens,K H Tsan,J. Nguyen,J. Ramirez,S. Carter,Elizabeth T. Cirulli,Kelly M. Schiabor Barrett,Pedro Belda-Ferre,Nicole L. Washington,S. Jacobs,Efren Sandoval,Dirk Becker,J. T. Lu,Magnus Isaksson,W. Lee,Shengmei Luo +25 more
TL;DR: In this article , the presence and fraction of reads supporting mutations specific to either the Delta or Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 was analyzed and the authors identified 18 co-infections, one of which displayed evidence of a low Delta-Omicron recombinant virus population.
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Identification of Omicron-Delta Coinfections Using PCR-Based Genotyping
Pavitra Roychoudhury,Shishi Luo,Kathleen C. Hayashibara,P. Hajian,Margaret G. Mills,Jean Lozach,T. Cassens,S. T. Wendm,Isabel Arnould,D.S. Becker,Timothy Wesselman,Jeremy Davis-Turak,R S Creager,Eric Lai,Keith R. Jerome,Tracey A. Basler,Andrew Dei Rossi,William E. Lee,Alexander L. Greninger +18 more
TL;DR: This work presents a novel, scalable, and scalable approaches that can be scaled up and implemented in the clinic for rapid and efficient diagnosis of vaccine-preventable infections.
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A method for variant agnostic detection of SARS-CoV-2, rapid monitoring of circulating variants, detection of mutations of biological significance, and early detection of emergent variants such as Omicron
E. Lai,Dirk Becker,Pius Brzoska,T. Cassens,Jeremy Davis-Turak,E. Diamond,Manohar R. Furtado,M. Gandhi,Dennis Gort,Alexander L. Greninger,Pega Hajian,Kathleen C. Hayashibara,Elaine Kennedy,Marc Laurent,W. Lee,N. Leonetti,Jean Lozach,J. T. Lu,J. Nguyen,Karen O'donovan,T. Peck,Gail Radcliffe,J. Ramirez,Pavitra Roychoudhury,Efren Sandoval,Bruce Walsh,M. Weinell,Christopher Wesselman,Timothy Wesselman,S. White,Shanado Williams,Digna Wong,R S Creager +32 more
TL;DR: A Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based genotyping approach that is significantly less expensive, accelerates reporting on SARS-CoV-2 variants, and can be implemented in any testing lab performing PCR is described.
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A Method for Variant Agnostic Detection of SARS-CoV-2, Rapid Monitoring of Circulating Variants, and Early Detection of Emergent Variants Such as Omicron
Eric Yo Ping Lai,Emily B. Kennedy,Jean Lozach,Kathleen C. Hayashibara,Jeremy Davis-Turak,D.S. Becker,Pius Brzoska,T. Cassens,Evan E Diamond,Manoj Gandhi,Alexander L. Greninger,P. Hajian,N. Leonetti,J. Nguyen,K. M. C. O'Donovan,T. Peck,J. Ramirez,Pavitra Roychoudhury,Efren Sandoval,Cassandra Wesselman,Timothy Wesselman,Simon R. White,Stephen Williams,D. Wong,Yufei Yu,R S Creager +25 more
TL;DR: A customizable reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR)-based genotyping approach which is significantly less expensive, accelerates reporting, and can be implemented in any lab that performs RT- PCR is described.