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Samuel M. Nicholls
Researcher at University of Birmingham
Publications - 37
Citations - 3808
Samuel M. Nicholls is an academic researcher from University of Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Metagenomics & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 30 publications receiving 1544 citations. Previous affiliations of Samuel M. Nicholls include Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
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Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity.
Erik M. Volz,Verity Hill,John T. McCrone,Anna Price,David Jorgensen,Áine O'Toole,Joel Southgate,Robert Johnson,Ben Jackson,Fabrícia F. Nascimento,Sara Rey,Samuel M. Nicholls,Rachel M. Colquhoun,Ana da Silva Filipe,James G Shepherd,David J Pascall,Rajiv Shah,Natasha Jesudason,Kathy Li,Ruth F. Jarrett,Nicole Pacchiarini,Matthew J. Bull,Lily Geidelberg,Igor Siveroni,Ian Goodfellow,Nicholas J. Loman,Oliver G. Pybus,David Robertson,E. Thomson,Andrew Rambaut,Thomas R. Connor +30 more
TL;DR: Investigation of the hypothesis for positive selection of Spike D614G in the United Kingdom using more than 25,000 whole genome SARS-CoV-2 sequences indicates that 614G increases in frequency relative to 614D in a manner consistent with a selective advantage.
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Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study.
Katherine A Twohig,Tommy Nyberg,Asad Zaidi,Simon Thelwall,Mary Sinnathamby,Shirin Aliabadi,Shaun R. Seaman,Ross J Harris,Russell Hope,Jamie Lopez-Bernal,Eileen Gallagher,Andre Charlett,Daniela De Angelis,Daniela De Angelis,Anne M. Presanis,Anne M. Presanis,Gavin Dabrera,Cherian Koshy,Amy Ash,Emma L. Wise,Nathan Moore,Matilde Mori,Nick Cortes,Jessica Lynch,Stephen P. Kidd,Derek Fairley,Tanya Curran,James McKenna,Helen Adams,Christophe Fraser,Tanya Golubchik,David Bonsall,Mohammed O Hassan-Ibrahim,Cassandra S Malone,Benjamin J Cogger,Michelle Wantoch,Nicola Reynolds,Ben Warne,Joshua Maksimovic,Karla Spellman,Kathryn McCluggage,Michaela John,Robert Beer,Safiah Afifi,Sian Morgan,Angela Marchbank,Anna Price,Christine Kitchen,Huw Gulliver,Ian Merrick,Joel Southgate,Martyn Guest,Robert J. Munn,Trudy Workman,Thomas R. Connor,William D. Fuller,Catherine Bresner,Luke B Snell,Amita Patel,Themoula Charalampous,Gaia Nebbia,Rahul Batra,Jonathan D. Edgeworth,Samuel Robson,Angela Helen Beckett,David M. Aanensen,Anthony Underwood,Corin Yeats,Khalil Abudahab,Ben Taylor,Mirko Menegazzo,Gemma Clark,Wendy Smith,Manjinder Khakh,Vicki M. Fleming,Michelle Lister,Hannah C. Howson-Wells,Louise Berry,Tim Boswell,Amelia Joseph,Iona Willingham,Carl Jones,Christopher W Holmes,Paul W Bird,Thomas Helmer,Karlie Fallon,Julian Tang,Veena Raviprakash,Sharon Campbell,Nicola Sheriff,Victoria Blakey,Lesley-Anne Williams,Matthew Loose,Nadine Holmes,Christopher I. Moore,Matthew Carlile,Victoria Wright,Fei Sang,Johnny Debebe,Francesc Coll,Adrian W Signell,Gilberto Betancor,Harry D Wilson,Sahar Eldirdiri,Anita Kenyon,Thomas R. A. Davis,Oliver G. Pybus,Louis du Plessis,Alex Zarebski,Jayna Raghwani,Moritz U. G. Kraemer,Sarah François,Stephen W Attwood,Tetyana I. Vasylyeva,Marina Escalera Zamudio,Bernardo Gutierrez,M. Estée Török,William L Hamilton,Ian Goodfellow,Grant Hall,Aminu S Jahun,Yasmin Chaudhry,Myra Hosmillo,Malte L Pinckert,Iliana Georgana,S.E. Moses,Hannah Lowe,Luke Bedford,Jonathan D. Moore,Susanne Stonehouse,Chloe L Fisher,Ali R Awan,John Boyes,Judith Breuer,Kathryn Ann Harris,Julianne R Brown,Divya K. Shah,Laura Atkinson,Jack Cd Lee,Nathaniel Storey,Flavia Flaviani,Adela Alcolea-Medina,Rebecca Williams,Gabrielle Vernet,Michael A Chapman,Lisa J Levett,Judith Heaney,Wendy Chatterton,Monika Pusok,Li Xu-McCrae,Darren Smith,Matthew Bashton,Gregory R Young,Alison Holmes,Paul Randell,Alison Cox,Pinglawathee Madona,Frances Bolt,James I. Price,Siddharth Mookerjee,Manon Ragonnet-Cronin,Fabrícia F. Nascimento,David Jorgensen,Igor Siveroni,Robert Johnson,Olivia Boyd,Lily Geidelberg,Erik M. Volz,Aileen G. Rowan,Graham P. Taylor,Katherine Smollett,Nicholas J. Loman,Joshua Quick,Claire McMurray,Joanne D. Stockton,Samuel M. Nicholls,Will P. M. Rowe,Radoslaw Poplawski,Alan McNally,Rocio Martinez Nunez,Jenifer Mason,Trevor Robinson,Elaine O'Toole,Joanne Watts,Cassie Breen,Angela Cowell,Graciela Sluga,Nicholas W Machin,Shazaad Ahmad,Ryan P George,Fenella D. Halstead,Venkat Sivaprakasam,Wendy Hogsden,Christopher J. R. Illingworth,Christopher Jackson,E. Thomson,James Shepherd,Patawee Asamaphan,Marc Niebel,Kathy Li,Rajiv Shah,Natasha Jesudason,Lily Tong,Alice Broos,Daniel Mair,Jenna Nichols,Stephen Carmichael,Kyriaki Nomikou,Elihu Aranday-Cortes,Natasha Johnson,Igor Starinskij,Ana da Silva Filipe,David Robertson,Richard J. Orton,Joseph Hughes,Sreenu Vattipally,Joshua B Singer,Seema Nickbakhsh,Antony D Hale,Louissa R Macfarlane-Smith,Katherine L Harper,Holli Carden,Yusri Taha,Brendan A I Payne,Shirelle Burton-Fanning,Sheila Waugh,Jennifer Collins,Gary Eltringham,Steven Rushton,Sarah J. O'Brien,Amanda Bradley,Alasdair MacLean,Guy Mollett,Rachel Blacow,Kate Templeton,Martin P McHugh,Rebecca Dewar,Elizabeth Wastenge,Samir Dervisevic,Rachael Stanley,Emma Meader,Lindsay Coupland,Louise Smith,Clive Graham,Edward Barton,Debra Padgett,Garren Scott,Emma Swindells,Jane Greenaway,Andrew J. Nelson,Clare M. McCann,Wen Yew,Monique Andersson,Tim E. A. Peto,Anita Justice,David W Eyre,Derrick W. Crook,Tim J Sloan,Nichola Duckworth,Sarah Walsh,Anoop Chauhan,Sharon Glaysher,Kelly Bicknell,Sarah Wyllie,Scott Elliott,A Lloyd,Robert Impey,Nick Levene,Lynn Monaghan,Declan Bradley,Tim Wyatt,Elias Allara,Clare Pearson,Husam Osman,Andrew Bosworth,Esther Robinson,Peter Muir,Ian B Vipond,Richard Hopes,Hannah M Pymont,Stephanie Hutchings,Martin D. Curran,Surendra Parmar,Angie Lackenby,Tamyo Mbisa,Steven Platt,Shahjahan Miah,David F. Bibby,Carmen F. Manso,Jonathan Hubb,Meera Chand,Mary Ramsay,Daniel Bradshaw,Alicia Thornton,Richard H. Myers,Ulf Schaefer,Natalie Groves,David C. Lee,David J. Williams,Nicholas Ellaby,Ian Harrison,Hassan Hartman,Nikos Manesis,Vineet Patel,Chloe Bishop,Vicki Chalker,Juan Ledesma,Katherine Twohig,Matthew T. G. Holden,Sharif Shaaban,Alec Birchley,Alexander Adams,Alisha Davies,Amy Gaskin,Amy Plimmer,Bree Gatica-Wilcox,Caoimhe McKerr,Catherine Moore,Christopher Williams,David Heyburn,Elen De Lacy,Ember Hilvers,Fatima Downing,Giri Shankar,Hannah Jones,Hibo Asad,Jason Coombes,Joanne Watkins,Johnathan M Evans,Laia Fina,Laura Gifford,Lauren Gilbert,Lee Graham,Malorie Perry,M Morgan,Matthew J. Bull,Michelle Cronin,Nicole Pacchiarini,Noel Craine,Rachel Jones,Robin Howe,Sally Corden,Sara Rey,Sara Kumziene-Summerhayes,S Taylor,Simon Cottrell,Sophie Jones,Sue Edwards,Justin O'Grady,Andrew J. Page,Alison E. Mather,David Baker,Steven Rudder,Alp Aydin,Gemma L. Kay,Alexander J. Trotter,Nabil-Fareed Alikhan,Leonardo de Oliveira Martins,Thanh Le-Viet,Lizzie Meadows,Anna L. Casey,Liz Ratcliffe,David Simpson,Zoltan Molnar,Thomas Thompson,Erwan Acheson,Jane A. H. Masoli,Bridget Knight,Sian Ellard,Cressida Auckland,Christopher I. Jones,Tabitha Mahungu,Dianne Irish-Tavares,Tanzina Haque,Jennifer Hart,Eric Witele,Melisa Louise Fenton,Ashok Dadrah,Amanda Symmonds,Tranprit Saluja,Yann Bourgeois,Garry Scarlett,Katie F. Loveson,Salman Goudarzi,Christopher Fearn,Kate B. Cook,Hannah Dent,Hannah Paul,David G Partridge,Mohammad Raza,Cariad Evans,Kate Johnson,Steven Liggett,Paul Baker,Stephen Bonner,Sarah Essex,Ronan Lyons,Kordo Saeed,Adhyana I K Mahanama,Buddhini Samaraweera,Siona Silveira,Emanuela Pelosi,Eleri Wilson-Davies,Rachel Williams,Mark Kristiansen,Sunando Roy,Charlotte A Williams,Marius Cotic,Nadua Bayzid,Adam P Westhorpe,John C. Hartley,Riaz Jannoo,Helen L Lowe,Angeliki Karamani,Leah Ensell,Jacqui Prieto,Sarah Jeremiah,Dimitris Grammatopoulos,Sarojini Pandey,Lisa Berry,Katie Jones,Alex G. Richter,Andrew D Beggs,Angus I. Best,Benita Percival,Jeremy Mirza,Oliver Megram,Megan Mayhew,Liam Crawford,Fiona Ashcroft,Emma Moles-Garcia,Nicola Cumley,Colin Smith,Giselda Bucca,Andrew Hesketh,Beth Blane,Sophia T Girgis,Danielle Leek,Sushmita Sridhar,Sally Forrest,Claire Cormie,Harmeet K Gill,Joana Dias,Ellen Higginson,Mailis Maes,Jamie Young,Leanne M Kermack,Ravi Gupta,Catherine Ludden,Sharon J. Peacock,Sophie Palmer,Carol Churcher,Nazreen F. Hadjirin,Alessandro M Carabelli,Ellena Brooks,Kim S Smith,Katerina Galai,Georgina M McManus,Christopher Ruis,Rose K Davidson,Andrew Rambaut,Thomas N. Williams,Carlos Balcazar,Michael Gallagher,Áine O'Toole,Stefan Rooke,Verity Hill,Kathleen A. Williamson,Thomas D Stanton,Stephen L. Michell,Claire M Bewshea,Ben Temperton,Michelle L Michelsen,Joanna Warwick-Dugdale,Robin Manley,Audrey Farbos,James W. Harrison,Christine Sambles,David J. Studholme,Aaron R. Jeffries,Leigh M Jackson,Alistair C. Darby,Julian A. Hiscox,Steve Paterson,Miren Iturriza-Gomara,Kathryn A Jackson,Anita Lucaci,Edith Vamos,Margaret Hughes,Lucille Rainbow,Richard Eccles,Charlotte Nelson,Mark Whitehead,Lance Turtle,Sam Haldenby,Richard Gregory,Matthew Gemmell,Claudia Wierzbicki,Hermione J. Webster,Thushan I de Silva,Nikki Smith,Adrienn Angyal,Benjamin B Lindsey,Danielle C. Groves,Luke R. Green,Dennis Wang,Timothy M. Freeman,Matthew Parker,Alexander J Keeley,Paul J. Parsons,Rachel Tucker,Rebecca C H Brown,Matthew Wyles,Max Whiteley,Peijun Zhang,Marta Gallis,Stavroula F Louka,Chrystala Constantinidou,Meera Unnikrishnan,Sascha Ott,Jeffrey K. J. Cheng,Hannah E Bridgewater,Lucy R. Frost,Grace Taylor-Joyce,Richard Stark,Laura Baxter,Mohammad Tauqeer Alam,Paul E Brown,Dinesh Aggarwal,Alberto C Cerda,Tammy V Merrill,Rebekah E Wilson,Patrick McClure,Joseph G. Chappell,Theocharis Tsoleridis,Jonathan K. Ball,David Buck,John A. Todd,Angie Green,Amy Trebes,G MacIntyre-Cockett,Mariateresa de Cesare,Alex Alderton,Roberto Amato,Cristina V. Ariani,Mathew A. Beale,Charlotte Beaver,Katherine L. Bellis,Emma Betteridge,James Bonfield,John Danesh,Matthew J. Dorman,Eleanor Drury,Ben Farr,Luke Foulser,Sónia Gonçalves,Scott Goodwin,Marina Gourtovaia,Ewan M. Harrison,David A. Jackson,Dorota Jamrozy,Ian Johnston,Leanne Kane,Sally Kay,Jon-Paul Keatley,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Cordelia Langford,Mara K. N. Lawniczak,Laura Letchford,Rich Livett,Stephanie W. Lo,Inigo Martincorena,Samantha McGuigan,Rachel Nelson,Steve Palmer,Naomi Park,Minal Patel,Liam Prestwood,Christoph Puethe,Michael A. Quail,Shavanthi Rajatileka,Carol Scott,Lesley Shirley,John Sillitoe,Michael Spencer Chapman,Scott Aj Thurston,Gerry Tonkin-Hill,Danni Weldon,Diana Rajan,Iraad Bronner,Louise Aigrain,Nicholas M Redshaw,Stefanie V Lensing,Robert Davies,Andrew Whitwham,Jennifier Liddle,Kevin Lewis,Jaime Tovar-Corona,Steven Leonard,Jillian Durham,Andrew Bassett,Shane McCarthy,Robin J Moll,Keith D. James,Karen Oliver,Alex Makunin,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Rory Gunson +607 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the severity of the delta variant compared with the alpha variant by determining the relative risk of hospital attendance outcomes and found that outbreaks of the Delta variant in unvaccinated populations might lead to a greater burden on health-care services than the alpha variants.
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Evaluating the effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutation D614G on transmissibility and pathogenicity
Erik M. Volz,Verity Hill,John T. McCrone,Anna Price,David Jorgensen,Áine O'Toole,Joel Southgate,Robert Johnson,Ben Jackson,Fabrícia F. Nascimento,Sara Rey,Samuel M. Nicholls,Rachel M. Colquhoun,Ana da Silva Filipe,James G Shepherd,David J Pascall,Rajiv Shah,Natasha Jesudason,Kathy Li,Ruth F. Jarrett,Nicole Pacchiarini,Matthew J. Bull,Lily Geidelberg,Igor Siveroni,Ian Goodfellow,Nicholas J. Loman,Oliver G. Pybus,Oliver G. Pybus,David Robertson,E. Thomson,Andrew Rambaut,Thomas R. Connor,Thomas R. Connor +32 more
TL;DR: Investigation of the hypothesis for positive selection of Spike 614G at the level of an individual country, the United Kingdom, using more than 25,000 whole genome SARS-CoV-2 sequences collected by COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium finds that Spike 6 14G clusters are introduced in the UK later on average than 614D clusters and grow to larger size after adjusting for time of introduction.
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Evolution and epidemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil.
Darlan da Silva Candido,Darlan da Silva Candido,Ingra Morales Claro,Jaqueline Goes de Jesus,William Marciel de Souza,Filipe R. R. Moreira,Simon Dellicour,Simon Dellicour,Thomas A. Mellan,Louis du Plessis,Rafael Henrique Moraes Pereira,Flavia C. S. Sales,Erika R. Manuli,Julien Thézé,Luiz Carlos de Almeida,Mariane Talon de Menezes,Carolina M. Voloch,Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli,Thais M. Coletti,Camila A. M. Silva,Mariana S. Ramundo,Mariene R. Amorim,Henrique Hoeltgebaum,Swapnil Mishra,Mandev S. Gill,Luiz Max Carvalho,Lewis F Buss,Carlos A. Prete,Jordan Ashworth,Helder I. Nakaya,Pedro S. Peixoto,Oliver J. Brady,Samuel M. Nicholls,Amilcar Tanuri,Átila Duque Rossi,Carlos Kaue Vieira Braga,Alexandra L. Gerber,Ana Paula de C Guimarães,Nelson Gaburo,Cecila Salete Alencar,Alessandro C. S. Ferreira,Cristiano Xavier Lima,José Eduardo Levi,Celso Francisco Hernandes Granato,Giulia M. Ferreira,Ronaldo da Silva Francisco,Fabiana Granja,Fabiana Granja,Márcia Teixeira Garcia,Maria Luiza Moretti,Mauricio W. Perroud,Terezinha M. P. P. Castineiras,Carolina S. Lazari,Sarah C. Hill,Sarah C. Hill,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos,Camila L. Simeoni,Julia Forato,Andrei C. Sposito,Angelica Zaninelli Schreiber,Magnun N. N. Santos,Camila Zolini de Sá,Renan P. Souza,Luciana C. Resende-Moreira,Mauro M. Teixeira,Josy Hubner,Patricia Asfora Falabella Leme,Rennan G. Moreira,Maurício Lacerda Nogueira,Neil M. Ferguson,Silvia Figueiredo Costa,José Luiz Proença-Módena,Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos,Samir Bhatt,Philippe Lemey,Chieh-Hsi Wu,Andrew Rambaut,Nicholas J. Loman,Renato Santana Aguiar,Oliver G. Pybus,Ester Cerdeira Sabino,Ester Cerdeira Sabino,Ester Cerdeira Sabino,Nuno R. Faria,Nuno R. Faria,Nuno R. Faria +85 more
TL;DR: New light is shed on the epidemic transmission and evolutionary trajectories of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in Brazil and evidence that current interventions remain insufficient to keep virus transmission under control in this country is provided.
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Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK.
Louis du Plessis,John T. McCrone,Alexander E. Zarebski,Verity Hill,Christopher Ruis,Bernardo Gutierrez,Bernardo Gutierrez,Jayna Raghwani,Jordan Ashworth,Rachel M. Colquhoun,Thomas R. Connor,Nuno R. Faria,Nuno R. Faria,Ben Jackson,Nicholas J. Loman,Áine O'Toole,Samuel M. Nicholls,Kris V Parag,Emily Scher,Tetyana I. Vasylyeva,Erik M. Volz,Alexander Watts,Isaac I. Bogoch,Kamran Khan,David M. Aanensen,Moritz U. G. Kraemer,Andrew Rambaut,Oliver G. Pybus,Oliver G. Pybus +28 more
TL;DR: The United Kingdom's COVID-19 epidemic during early 2020 was one of world's largest and was unusually well represented by virus genomic sampling as mentioned in this paper, which determined the fine-scale genetic lineage structure of this epidemic through analysis of 50,887 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genomes, including 26,181 from the UK sampled throughout the country's first wave of infection.