New paper out in BMC Public Health on the MY-Pneumo study protocol - pneumococcal infections among children with pneumonia in Peninsular Malaysia bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Background S. pneumoniae (SPN) is the most common cause of pneumonia. The disease can be effectively prevented through immunisation. Since December 2020, the Malaysian Government has included the 10-v...
Evolutionary dynamics of genome structure and content among closely related bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Interesting paper looking at bacterial evolution over ~100 years - in E. coli ST131. 1 structural change per 3 core genome SNPs.
New paper from me and lots of fantastic colleagues - Did COVID-19 lockdowns change carriage of other respiratory tract bacteria in children? Sort of. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) continues to be a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality. Using our long-running pediatric study, we examined changes in pneumococcal carriage ...
Halfway through the Analysing Microbial Genomic Data Course #AMGDJuly24@pathogenomenick.bsky.social
Really important paper in MGen today. Evaluating the impact of genomic epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on hospital infection prevention and control decisions www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Genomic epidemiology enhances the ability to detect and refute methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks in healthcare settings, but its routine introduction requires further eviden...
New paper in BMC Genomics - taken a while to get this one over the line but delighted our study of #Klebsiellardcu.be/dE34S
Our next Analysing Microbial Genomics Data (AMGD) course is open for registration. A hands-on, week long, tutorial based introduction to the field featuring additional talks from IMI and UoB researchers. Dates: 1st to 5th July, hurry as places limited! www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Information about University of Birmingham CPD course Analysing Microbial Genomic Data
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At a microbiome conference and a recent online suggestion that Microbiome should be a separate discipline has come to my mind No!!! Its ecology, metabolism, bioinformatics, Comp Biology, and all microbiology at its heart.
That was grounded, all day every day. Being a Scotland fan is hard work.