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Joshua Twitchell

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ORISE Fellow at CDC working to validate WGS under CLIA. Medical Laboratory Scientist (ASCP)

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Schematic overview of benchmarking approach, highlighting the optimized pipeline.

Schematic overview of benchmarking approach, highlighting the optimized pipeline.

New in #JClinMicro! An optimized, streamlined nanopore-only workflow for epidemiologic analysis of bacterial pathogens, enabling outbreak analysis with performance comparable to that of Illumina short-read sequencing.
Get the details: asm.social/2wd

29.07.2025 16:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Outbreak of Blastomycosis Among Paper Mill Workers... This report describes an outbreak of blastomycosis among workers at a paper mill in Michigan.

One example (of thousands) where EIS was invaluable:

2023, a rare fungal outbreak at a paper mill infected workers

CDC EIS helped trace the source, stop the outbreak, and informed future prevention efforts

Now multiply that by 100+ responses every year #PublicHealth

๐Ÿ”— www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

14.02.2025 21:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 432 ๐Ÿ” 178 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

P. luteola and orizyhabitans!

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