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Lucas Huggins

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Parasitologist - using nanopore sequencing for novel diagnostic method development, particularly 🐕‍🦺🐈

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Lucas Huggins @lucashuggins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Excited to say our paper using nanopore sequencing for the complete characterisation of parasitic nematodes diversity from humans and animals is out in The Lancet Microbe! Four years in the making but worth the wait! 🪱🪱🧬🧬 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Nanopore long-read metabarcoding for comprehensive characterisation of parasitic nematodes in humans and animals: a development and diagnostic validation study
This nemabiome assay offers a comprehensive approach for the precise characterisation of parasite communities (co-infections) affecting humans and vertebrates. Unlike target-specific molecular methods...
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Lucas Huggins @lucashuggins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Our review exploring the risks posed by zoonotic transmission of the vector-borne pathogen Rickettsia felis from pets to people is out now! 🦠🐩🐈‍⬛ doi.org/10.1071/MA25...
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Global emergence of Rickettsia felis infections: the hidden threat in pets and their fleas
The globally emerging pathogen Rickettsia felis uses the cat flea as a biological vector and can cause serious infections in humans. Rickettsia felis can be transmitted to numerous mammalian hosts, bu...
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sturalph.bsky.social @sturalph.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Is it only parasitologists that are happy to sit through a talk on maggots, then another on horseshit before an evening meal together? What other weirdos do this? Great to get together with the Melbourne folks @ Australian Society for Parasitology - thanks @lucashuggins.bsky.social for organising.
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pore-xy.bsky.social @pore-xy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@lucashuggins.bsky.social explaining the difference between metabarcoding and Metagenomics on @nanopore at the parasitology workshop
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