📅 Heute ist Welt-Tuberkulose- -Tag! Büroinformatikerin Dr. ir. Margo Diricks vom @fzborstel.bsky.social erzählt uns im #Video warum dieser Tag so wichtig ist und wie sie dabei hilft die #Tuberkulose weltweit zu bekämpfen. 💊🧫 #WTBD2025
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Genomic insights into the plasmidome of non-tuberculous mycobacteria - Genome Medicine Background Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are a diverse group of environmental bacteria that are increasingly associated with human infections and difficult to treat. Plasmids, which might carry r...

genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Check out our new paper on plasmids in non-tuberculous mycobacteria!

Diagnostics, resistance and clinical relevance of non-tuberculous mycobacteria unidentified at the species level by line probe assays: a bi-national study - PubMed Our study demonstrates the clinical relevance of uncommon NTM and the effectiveness of targeted deep-sequencing combined with WGS in identifying rare and novel NTM species.

Check out our New publication about novel and rare non-tuberculous mycobacteria that are not identified by routine diagnostic assays. Special Thanks to Matúš Dohál for the very nice collaboration.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39962513/
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Last day of a fantastic Training and Consortium Meeting of the EDCTP3 funded PANGenS project (Pan-African Network for Genomic Surveillance of poverty related Diseases and Emerging pathogens) in beautiful Namibia. Really great to see everyone again in person. @fzborstel.bsky.social

Happy to have this one finally out...Many Thanks to all my colleagues in and outside Borstel, who made this possible :)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is on the rise worldwide, posing a major challenge to global health. This week is world AMR awareness week... a perfect occassion to talk about a highly antibiotic-resistant and emerging group of bacteria: non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). #WAAM2024

Nice and productive visit of colleagues from CERMEL (Gabon) in Borstel for training in tNGS and WGS of M. tuberculosis strains and discussion of TB sampling progress within the PANGenS project.
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