by Alexa Juran | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog, Blog Highlight
Sometimes a persistent outbreak can feel challenging, like solving a 10,000-piece puzzle. With the complexity of multiple variables coming into play, identifying the transmission routes to find the source becomes a daunting task. You pull out the heavy artillery and...
by Alexa Juran | Jun 29, 2023 | Blog
Industry standards warrant a 6-week period of continual surveillance of a hospital cluster outbreak at the point of last detection, but is that enough? How can we tell if 6 weeks are enough? How can we know if our outbreaks are related to each other or maybe even one...
by Alexa Juran | Apr 13, 2023 | Blog
Have you been having nightmares about your elderly neighbor becoming infected with Cordyceps and relentlessly chasing after you to spread the “conscious” fungus through a fresh bite? You may have if you have spent the last few months watching HBO’s “The Last of Us”...
by Alexa Juran | Feb 21, 2023 | Blog
Time for a change of pace. We usually talk about hospital acquired infections in our Lab Services Blog, but a recent blog article from Eric Topol asking why whole genome sequencing isn’t used for infectious disease diagnostics got us talking. Sequencing-based...
by admin | Sep 28, 2022 | Blog
We often get asked what other institutions are doing for their infection control and outbreak detection and how many are actually using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) routinely for outbreak transmission investigations. Well, the answer is…. complicated… Integrating WGS...
by admin | Jun 23, 2022 | Blog
Water is the essence of life—nothing can live without it, but what happens when water becomes the source of life-threatening infections? Environmental reservoirs have been linked to healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), with water being one of the key accomplices....
