Joshua Twitchell
@jtwitchell.bsky.social
ORISE Fellow at CDC working to validate WGS under CLIA.
Medical Laboratory Scientist (ASCP)
Medical Laboratory Scientist (ASCP)
Reposted by Joshua Twitchell
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
Get the details: asm.social/2wd
July 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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
Get the details: asm.social/2wd
Reposted by Joshua Twitchell
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
🔗 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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
🔗 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Outbreak of Blastomycosis Among Paper Mill Workers...
This report describes an outbreak of blastomycosis among workers at a paper mill in Michigan.
www.cdc.gov
February 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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
🔗 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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
🔗 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...