Feasibility of using alternative swabs and storage solutions for paired SARS-CoV-2 detection and microbiome analysis in the hospital environment

by Jeremiah J. Minich, Farhana Ali, Clarisse Marotz, Pedro Belda-Ferre, Leslie Chiang, Justin P. Shaffer, Carolina S. Carpenter, Daniel McDonald, Jack Gilbert, Sarah M. Allard, Eric E. Allen, Rob Knight, Daniel A. Sweeney, Austin D. Swafford
Published 2021-01-01

Prevalence of Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes in non-traditional irrigation waters in the Mid-Atlantic United States is affected by water type, season, and recovery method.

by Manan Sharma, Eric T Handy, Cheryl L East, Seongyun Kim, Chengsheng Jiang, Mary Theresa Callahan, Sarah M Allard, Shirley Micallef, Shani Craighead, Brienna Anderson-Coughlin, Samantha Gartley, Adam Vanore, Kalmia E Kniel, Joseph Haymaker, Rico Duncan, Derek Foust, Chanelle White, Maryam Taabodi, Fawzy Hashem, Salina Parveen, Eric May, Anthony Bui, Hillary Craddock, Prachi Kulkarni, Rianna T Murray, Amy R Sapkota
Published 2020-01-01

SARS-CoV-2 detection status associates with bacterial community composition in patients and the hospital environment

by Clarisse Marotz, Pedro Belda-Ferre, Farhana Ali, Promi Das, Shi Huang, Kalen Cantrell, Lingjing Jiang, Cameron Martino, Rachel E. Diner, Gibraan Rahman, Daniel McDonald, George Armstrong, Sho Kodera, Sonya Donato, Gertrude Ecklu-Mensah, Neil Gottel, Mariana C. Salas Garcia, Leslie Y. Chiang, Rodolfo A. Salido, Justin P. Shaffer, Mac Kenzie Bryant, Karenina Sanders, Greg Humphrey, Gail Ackermann, Niina Haiminen, Kristen L. Beck, Ho-Cheol Kim, Anna Paola Carrieri, Laxmi Parida, Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza, Francesca J. Torriani, Rob Knight, Jack Gilbert, Daniel A. Sweeney, Sarah M. Allard
Published 2021-06-01

Current progress and future opportunities in applications of bioinformatics for biodefense and pathogen detection: report from the Winter Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up, College P...

by Jacquelyn S. Meisel, Daniel J. Nasko, Brian Brubach, Victoria Cepeda-Espinoza, Jessica Chopyk, Héctor Corrada-Bravo, Marcus Fedarko, Jay Ghurye, Kiran Javkar, Nathan D. Olson, Nidhi Shah, Sarah M. Allard, Adam L. Bazinet, Nicholas H. Bergman, Alexis Brown, J. Gregory Caporaso, Sean Conlan, Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Samuel P. Forry, Nur A. Hasan, Jason Kralj, Paul M. Luethy, Donald K. Milton, Brian D. Ondov, Sarah Preheim, Shashikala Ratnayake, Stephanie M. Rogers, M. J. Rosovitz, Eric G. Sakowski, Nils Oliver Schliebs, Daniel D. Sommer, Krista L. Ternus, Gherman Uritskiy, Sean X. Zhang, Mihai Pop, Todd J. Treangen
Published 2018-11-01