Ever wondered why there are so many co-circulating #klebsiella pneumo clones? ... me too! So I'm thrilled to present this new preprint from my lab, where we explore this very question. The culmination of 3+ yrs hard work by Ben Vezina! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Klebsiella Club

🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨 One Health Aotearoa invites submissions for the #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 2024! 📆 3-4 December 📍University of University of Otago Submit your 250-word abstract by 31 August 2024 to [email protected] Don't miss out! #Research #Collaboration

Building a ‘tolerance’ to E. coli by intentionally exposing yourself is dangerous & 👉not👈 recommended Not washing hands after using the bathroom spreads harmful bacteria & poses serious health risks to yourself & others Always practice good hygiene! #PublicHealth #SafetyFirst

I finally got around to testing HERRO (github.com/lbcb-sci/herro), the new Oxford Nanopore read correction algorithm which takes simplex ONT reads to PacBio-HiFi-level accuracy. I was impressed! Findings are on my blog in a two-part post: rrwick.github.io/2024/07/26/her… rrwick.github.io/2024/07/31/her…

🚨 New Study Alert! 🚨 Our latest npj Vaccines paper, in collaboration with Endeavour Veterinary Ecology, explores the 10-year impact of the UniSC Koala Chlamydia vaccine on disease and mortality Read more nature.com/articles/s4154… #KoalaConservation #VaccineResearch #npjVaccines

Learn how researchers from ESR (incl Rhys White 🧬) & Awanui Labs Wellington successfully implemented a cutting-edge Oxford Nanopore genomic monitoring system, halting a drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a Wellington neonatal intensive care unit ➡️ tinyurl.com/bddz94xr

poops.nz Updated dashboard - New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. A few changes to the schedule and sites. From last week, 11 sites are all tested each week for SARS-CoV-2. The dashboard updated every 2 weeks. Variants updated at least every 4 weeks.

I'm Melinda (aka Melinda Ashcroft (PhD)) one of your ASM Communications Ambassadors and this week we are highlighting some of the excellent work published in #MicrobiologyAus on #OneHealth and #AMR.

🚨EXTENDED DEADLINE🚨 You can still submit an abstract for the One Health Aotearoa Symposium 2024 New deadline: 15 Sep 2024 Join us in Wellington on 3-4 Dec! Open to all career stages Submit your 250-word abstract to [email protected] More info: onehealth.org.nz/one-health-aot…

Just got to Queenstown for #QRW2024! Excited for the Pathogen Genomics Satellite, with Amy Jennison on how #PublicHealth genomics tackles emerging bacterial threats, & Michelle Wille on #Genomics of #AvianInfluenza & Australia’s #HPAI preparedness🧬 My advice: bring an umbrella☔️

Plenary speaker Amy Jennison (Queensland Health) on #Genomics for responding to emerging bacterial public health threats 🧬WGS in #PublicHealth labs 🦠Post-COVID applications 🔬Case studies: B. pseudomallei, C. diphtheriae 🔍 Metagenomics for diagnostics & surveillance #QRW2024

Next is Heather L Hendrickson (University of Canterbury) "There's a #phage for that... Progress towards identifying promising pathogens and their phages in #PrimaryIndustries" 🐝P. larvae in honey bees 🦠26 novel phages discovered 🧪97% pathogen coverage 🔬Ongoing work on phage cocktails #PhageTherapy #QRW2024

🔬Fiona Constable (Agriculture Victoria) on "A #Genomics approach to investigate phytoplasma taxonomy and diversity in Australia" 🧬Novel #Phytoplasma enrichment method 🦠Whole genome-based taxonomic delimitation 🌱9 species identified 🔍Analysed 190+ samples from Aussie veggie regions #QRW2024

🧬Donna Waite (Ministry for Primary Industries): Rapid ID of Pepino mosaic virus via Oxford Nanopore in NZ outbreak 🍅PepMV detected in NZ commercial greenhouse ⚡5-day turnaround for sequencing 🦠CH2 clade & PVX identified 🔬SNP analysis for virulence assessment 🌱Informed real-time response #QRW2024

🦠Patrick Biggs (Massey University): Genomics of NZ Mycoplasma bovis outbreak 🧬1030 isolates sequenced 🔍4 clades identified, Clade 2 dominant 🧫 PacBio for reference genomes 🔬Pangenome & clade-specific analyses ongoing 💪 Genomic epi crucial for outbreak response #QRW2024 #MbovisNZ

Planary talk by Michelle Wille from University of Melbourne shares how #Genomics of low pathogenicity avian #influenza enhances our understanding of risk assessment and preparedness for high pathogenicity avian influenza in Australia. #InfluenzaResearch #QRW2024

Up now is Stacey Lynch-Allen from CSIRO talking everything #Genomics across #OneHealth - winners & cautionary tales #QRW2024

poops.nz Updated dashboard - New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. From 11 sites, 10 submitted samples last week, so slightly down in % coverage. A sequence run planned for next week (including next weeks samples, so variants in next update).