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Genomic Insights into Hypervirulent Klebsiella in Ireland
March 20, 2025
Mark Maguire takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Genomic and phylogenetic analysis of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST23 in Ireland' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Sexually Transmitted Infections: Genome Analysis from Clinical Samples
February 14, 2025
Helena Seth-Smith takes us behind the scenes of their latest publications 'Evaluating methods for genome sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted bacteria directly from clinical swabs' and 'Chlamydia trachomatis genomes from rectal samples: description of a new clade comprising ompA-genotype L4 from Argentina' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Can metagenomics be used to identify safe food?
February 7, 2025
Dr Samuel Bloomfield takes us behind the scenes of his latest publication “Ecological insights into the microbiology of food using metagenomics and its potential surveillance applications” published in Microbial Genomics.
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Democratising Bioinformatics! Breaking the Bioinformatics Barrier in AMR Genome Analysis
November 19, 2024
Su Datt Lam, Sabrina Di Gregorio, Mia Yang Ang, Emma Griffiths, Tengku Zetty Maztura Tengku Jamaluddin, Sheila Nathan and Hui-min Neoh take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'AMRColab – a user-friendly antimicrobial resistance detection and visualization tool' published in Microbial Genomics.
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There is no bad data, there is only data
September 13, 2024
Dr. Inês Mendes and Dr. Bryan A. Wee take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'PHA4GE quality control contextual data tags: standardized annotations for sharing public health sequence datasets with known quality issues to facilitate testing and training' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Caesarean section infants’ gut microbiome differences are driven by delivery mode, not by antibiotic exposure.
August 2, 2024
Sophie Leech takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Delivery mode is a larger determinant of infant gut microbiome composition at 6 weeks than exposure to peripartum antibiotics' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Demystifying Borrelia: novel computational methods to detect and identify OspA types
June 19, 2024
Dr Jonathan T Lee and Dr Li Hao take us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘Development of a sequence-based in silico OspA typing method for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato’ published in Microbial Genomics.
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Microbe Talk - Roots of resistance: exploring AMR in ancient mouths
June 13, 2024
For this episode of Microbe Talk Clare was joined by the wonderful Gwyn Dahlquist-Axe and Francesca Standeven, archaeological scientists who study AMR and ancient human oral microbiomes. They're on the podcast to discuss their review into diet, disease and antibiotic resistance from ancient human oral microbiomes published in Microbial Genomics.