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Thrilled to share the final project from my PhD, now published 🙌🏻
Here we describe the high-level intra-host diversity of ST80 VREfm carriage in Irish hospital patients 🇮🇪 highlighting distinct vanA transposon iterations 🧬
Check it out below 👇
doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlaf0…
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The March issue of Epi Insight is out now and features a variety of interesting articles like:
🦠Five years of COVID-19 in Ireland
👥Increase in scabies outbreaks
🧠Increase in cases of Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD)
Read the full issue here👉bit.ly/4ksPOO8
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Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is a growing global threat! Our new review in explores its resilience, adaptation, and the urgent need for novel strategies. #AMR #VREfm
📝New review in the lab!
@anaasantos96 et al. dive deep into the epidemiology, resistance mechanisms and adaptive traits that make Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium a persistent challenge in healthcare.
👉Link to the article: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
@UCIBIO_Research
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Check out this exciting collection of #enterococcus papers from our great colleagues!
Versatile Lifestyles of Enterococci as Commensals and Pathogens, from #FEMSMicrobes
Discover enterococci biology: genetics, metabolism, antimicrobial resistance, and biotechnological applications.
Editors: Breck Duerkop, Ana Freitas, and Julia Willett
buff.ly/4heTQqN
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The human gut can really take it all!
Thrilled to share that our paper is finally published!
👏New paper by @anaasantos96 et al. ending the year!
We assessed Enterococcus spp. diversity in healthy adults finding:
🔍VVE
🔍linezolid-resistant strains
🔍E. lactis increase since 2001
🔍Species-specific bacteriocins inhibiting VRE
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
@UCIBIO_Research
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📢New paper in the lab!
We explored genomic/epidemiological landscapes of redundant pbp5 genes in Enterococcus spp. with exciting results:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
@Carla_Novais11 @anarpf1981 @LpeixeLuisa @oqpich @paulabierge @m_sanchezosuna
@UCIBIO_Research @STOTEN_journal
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A mere six years after its first release, SKA is now published
genome.cshlp.org/content/ear…
Successfully defended my Ph.D yesterday 🥰
Very grateful to my supervisor Prof. David Coleman and my wonderful colleagues in the Microbiology Research Unit in Dublin Dental University Hospital for an incredible experience over the last four years!
Ph.DONE!! 🤣
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👏So proud of this achievement!
Distinct bacteriocin profiles emerged between E. faecium and E. lactis with species-specific adaptations. Hospital E. faecium were enriched in enterocin A, bacteriocins 43 (or T8) and novel ones.
We need more strain-level bacteriocin studies!
📢Exciting new insights into bacteriocin diversity in enterococci!🦠
We built a bac database and identified key bacteriocins potentially driving hospital adaptation.
A promising avenue to combat high-risk clones! 💥
@ASMicrobiology @UCIBIO_Research
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050 - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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The ever amazing @art_egorov in our group has made a new visualisation tool for comparative genomics. Makes particularly beautiful images of phages, plasmids, other MGEs or regions of prokaryotic genomes 😍 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
Excited to share another piece of work from my PhD 🙌🏻 Here we describe the long-term cross-institutional CT-specific dominance of ST80 VREfm lineages in Irish hospital networks 🇮🇪 indicating environmental persistence and potential unidentified reservoirs. Check it out below👇
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It's great to see this piece of work with @nikavanagh finally published 👏 a lovely detailed look at VRE in Ireland 🇮🇪, highlighting predominant ST80 strains with indicators of environmental persistence and potential unidentified reservoirs within hospitals 🏥 🦠🧫
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Congratulations @spymelvin97 for winning a prize at the Irish Fungal Society meeting for his talk on Tac1 and Tlo in C. albicans @scienceirel @DentalSchoolTcd @DDUH12
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Congrats @SundermannAJ this paper took forever but it was worth the wait! @IDPittStop
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Great title on this lovely review on enterococci. Well done @MrDavidHourigan @Pharmabiotic @UccMicrobiology bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.c…
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We are really excited to open registration for our Conference - ‘IPC in the Built Environment, combining evidence and experience’ on the 12th June in the @HiltonHotels Airport Hotel, Dublin. Email [email protected] for registration information. See you there! – at Dublin City, Ireland
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What’s behind the predominance of clade A1 strains in nosocomial E. faecium infections?
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Find out in our paper
„Interactions between commensal Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis and clinical isolates of E. faecium“
academic.oup.com/femsmicrobe…
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Beyond proud of @aoifeky @RCSI_Micro who did an exceptional job in her #PhD viva today. Thanks to examiners Prof Lorena Lopez Cerero @HUVMacarena @KGMcGuigan @RCSI_Irl chair @chris_torrens @RCSI_postgrad @IrishResearch @FfitzP @HHumphreys11 @iscm_micro
