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Breakthrough research using #genomics reveals Strep A more likely transmitted from bacteria in throat than skin-to-skin contact in communities with high infection rates. Published in The Lancet Microbe doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne… Jake Lacey Steven Tong UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital #Streptococcus

Our work to find that the throat is an important reservoir for Strep A in areas with endemic skin infections. Interventions to reduce spread likely need to consider the throat. Full paper here: thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… And Guardian piece: theguardian.com/australia-news…

New collaborative research led by Steven Tong Jake Lacey featured in The Guardian Rheumatic heart disease in Indigenous children could be spread by throat bacteria, researchers find theguardian.com/australia-news… The Royal Melbourne Hospital UniMelb MDHS Menzies Research telethonkids #Streptococcus #strepA

Exciting opportunity to work on cross-sectoral infectious diseases / microbiology / AMR projects as part of our Food, Environment, Outbreak team: MDU Public Health Lab UniMelb MDHS Doherty Institute jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/913667/…

A new analysis of hundreds of Strep A samples taken from kids shows how NZ is exposed to a "worldwide population" of the nasty bacteria. Here's why that matters for new efforts to make vaccines against it nzherald.co.nz/nz/strep-a-stu…

Join us at Australia's leading public health laboratory MDU-PHL at Doherty Institute to continue our genomics implementation with a great team @KristyHoran14 Jake Lacey Norelle Sherry Benjamin Howden #jobs #Bioinformatics #Melbourne jobs.staff.unimelb.edu.au/ci/en/job/9138…

🌟ONLINE FIRST: A worldwide population of Streptococcus pyogenes strains circulating among school-aged children in Auckland, New Zealand: a genomic epidemiology analysis ✍️Nikki Moreland Jake Lacey thelancet.com/journals/lanwp…

Congratulations to our staff who received University of Melbourne Excellence Awards for 'Interdisciplinary Research' and 'Public Benefit' 🏆 doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne… Steven Tong Mark_Davies_Lab Katherine Gibney Trish Campbell Jake Lacey @dj_price10 Ouli Xie jp villanueva UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Our new pre-print is out on the gen-epi of invasive Group A Strep in Victoria #strepA We show not only the impacts of Covid-19 and the expansion of M1UK, but we found we had a previously dominant clone of M1 isolates (M1AUS). Check it out here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Our new preprint where we sailed the seven seas of the #Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex 🏴‍☠️ and have charted you an atlas of our travels! We present a population metabolism study of 7835 genomes + metabolic models, in vitro validation and co-cultures. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Key summary: We found lineage-specific substrate specialisation across the population. Co-cultures with different lineages display consistent reciprocal cross-feeding for these substrate breakdown products. In other words, when it comes to Klebsiella, no pirate left behind 🏴‍☠️

🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨 One Health Aotearoa invites submissions for the #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 2024! 📆 3-4 December 📍University of University of Otago Submit your 250-word abstract by 31 August 2024 to [email protected] Don't miss out! #Research #Collaboration

Very excited about this piece of work in The Lancet Microbe co-lead with Jessica Webb, on the development of Australian Pathogen Genomics Program, a national pathogen genomics translational research program. Fantastic work team! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…