Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest global public health threats of the 21st Century, yet it often spreads in ways that routine surveillan

Free automated phage genome annotation -- pharokka, phold and phynteny in one pipeline.

Precise region-based excision of coordinate-labelled rows from NEXUS matrices. - RhysWhite/nexcision

The growing resistance of Enterobacterales to last-resort antibiotics such as carbapenems puts a significant burden on healthcare systems, also due to plasmids driving a rapid spread of carbapenem res...

ALT: Fine This Is Fine GIF

This study presents a comprehensive genomic analysis of S. aureus ST1, a lineage that is unusually dominant in both bovine and human populations in New Zealand. Leveraging New Zealand’s geographical i...

Our 11th annual symposium will be held on 2-3 December 2025 at the University of Otago, Wellington campus and online. Registrations will open soon! Venue Information Nordmeyer Lecture Theatre – Univer...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) represents a significant public health challenge. In New Zealand, the community-associated MRSA sequence type (ST)5, carrying the staphylococcal cass...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) represents a significant public health challenge. In New Zealand, the community-associated MRSA sequence type (ST)5, carrying the staphylococcal cass...

Cottam et al. identify distinct pathways for D-ribulose utilisation in pathogenic Escherichia coli and Citrobacter rodentium, providing mechanistic details and suggesting convergent evolution towards ...

Outbreak of OXA-48–Producing <em>E. coli</em>, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science. Volume 79, Number 1, March 2025

Many hospital laboratories have technical capacity to perform whole-genome sequencing but lack bioinformatic expertise to analyse sequence data. Sending isolates to reference laboratories creates dela...

Background Klebsiella variicola has been implicated in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) outbreaks previously and can be misidentified as Klebsiella pneumoniae. An increased incidence of K. pneumoni...

Biosecurity New Zealand is taking further action today to stamp out a high pathogenic strain of avian influenza, H7N6, detected on a commercial egg farm in rural Otago. "Work started this morning to h...

Infectious disease control in neonatal units is often reactive, only after several babies fall ill at the same time. Proactive genome sequencing provides an early-warning system to prevent outbreaks.

Rifaximin use, particularly in patients with liver cirrhosis, may be compromising the clinical use of daptomycin.

Background Klebsiella variicola has been implicated in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) outbreaks previously and can be misidentified as Klebsiella pneumoniae. An increased incidence of K. pneumon...

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Outbreaks of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are well described in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting. Genomics has revolutionized the investigation of such outbreaks; ...

Early identification of a ward-based outbreak of Clostridioides difficile using prospective multilocus sequence type-based Oxford Nanopore genomic surveillance

Escherichia coli ST131 is a globally dominant multidrug resistant clone associated with high rates of recurring urinary tract infections. In this genomic epidemiology study, the authors describe the e...