Category: sequencing
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The 2024 End of Year Special
In this episode, Brett, Phil and Martin reflect on the year. We chat about favourite podcasts, papers and conferences in our usual informal manner (well probably even more informal than normal). Papers we mention are listed below. Cimen C, Bathoorn E, Loeve AJ, Fliss M, Berends MS, Nagengast WB, et al. Uncovering the spread of…
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Could you have an ERCP-related outbreak? Sequencing to the rescue but you’ll have to trash the scope!
In this episode, Martin talks to Cansu Cimen, a researcher at University Hospitals Groningen in the Netherlands, about a recent paper that documents an outbreak and in particular the critical role of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in tracking and controlling the transmission of MDROs via contaminated duodenoscopes. Focusing on an outbreak linked to ESBL-producing Citrobacter freundii…
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More posters from ESCMID Global 2024, inc C. diff, UV-C, wastewater surveillance, LA-MRSA
This week we have a second batch of posters that we liked at ESCMID Global and will be talking about: A pdf of the posters can be downloaded below
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If you could have anything in IPC, what would you want?
In this week’s episode Phil and Brett mull over their wish lists for what they would want in a perfect IPC world. They turn out to be a pretty undemanding pair. not. However they both see a future in which their wishes could become true. Unsurprisingly AI and automated surveillance loom large in their thoughts.
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MDRO Plasmid-related outbreaks – is there anything we can do? With Jon Otter
In this week’s episode, Martin talks to Dr Jon Otter, epidemiologist, scientst, blogger and Joint Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. We discuss a session at the recent ICPIC conference on the problems posed by plasmids in terms of outbreak detection, increasing antimicrobial resistance…
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A CLEEN study chat and a rude interruption!
In this podcast, we talk about the CLEEN and I-CLEEN studies. These are a RCT and quasi-experimental genomics study aiming to determine the effect of additional cleaning of shared medical equipment of the frequency of healthcare associated infections. We also make phone call mid podcast… A shout out to all the team involved in this…
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Outbreaks you didn’t know that you had – the joy of whole genome sequencing
In this episode recorded at the 2023 SHEA Spring Meeting in Seattle, Martin talks to Associate Professor Alex Sundermann about his work on sequencing all isolates from local healthcare settings and the discoveries that this enables. Healthcare infections due to previous admissions, endoscopes, even pseudo-outbreaks are all laid bare by this approach. Some recent papers…
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