by Alexa Juran | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog
One of the upsides of using whole genome sequencing for HAI outbreak detection is that you can take a deeper look into the genetic composition of pathogens and characterize drivers of resistance and spread. When you know what resistance markers you are searching for,...
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...
