Think you were exposed? Call Healthline 0800 611 116 for advice before visiting care. They’ll advise on what to do & how to protect others ☎️ 😷

Were you at a “location of interest”? Check dates & follow the advice for close or casual contacts here: info.health.nz/conditions-t... 📍

Highest risk: unvaccinated people, babies under 12 months, pregnant people, & those with weakened immunity. Complications can be serious 👶 🤰 🧪

Symptoms to watch: fever (≥38°C), cough, runny nose, sore red eyes, then a rash.

If symptoms start, call your GP or Healthline first.
👉Do not just turn up👈
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How can #measles spread?
Breathe the same air as an infectious person & you can catch it. The virus can linger in the air or on surfaces for up to 2 hours 🕒

📍💉 #Measles #HealthNZ #TeWhatuOra #Immunisation #NZ

Where else is ST1 hiding?

We need to start thinking about environmental & farm worker sampling to map the spread & persistence of ST1

#AMR #Genomics #OneHealth #Staphylococcus #Biosecurity #NZ

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Timeline analyses show ST1 evolving differently in people & cows

To stay ahead of emerging lineages & resistance, we need a #OneHealth lens linking human, animal, & environmental data 🌍

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We expected human & bovine derived ST1 to be genomically ‘similar’

Instead we found:

🔹 Human derived ST1 = more antibiotic resistance genes #AMR

🔹 Bovine derived ST1 = a unique host-specific prophage (φSabovST1) carrying bovine leukocidins

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Globally, bovine S. aureus usually belong to ST97/ST151

But in NZ 🇳🇿, ST1 dominates in humans & cattle

This unusual overlap raises big questions about possible cross-species #transmission & #evolution

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P.S.
ESR is now PHF Science
Same expertise, same commitment... new name

Our mission to protect #PublicHealth through genomics & science communication continues #SciComm

Sequence read data has been submitted to the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under BioProject numbers PRJNA1102395 & PRJNA1097666 (we welcome others to use them)

GenBank accessions CP175691–7

Finally, thanks to all our amazing collaborators! 👏

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#PublicHealth action worked:
🧼Hygiene issues were fixed
✅No further cases linked to the site

Genomic sequencing helped:
✔️Trace the outbreak to a single introduction
✔️Understand how it spread

#CPE isn’t just a hospital problem - it’s a community threat, but solvable

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A common link kept coming up: a ready-to-eat food venue, Premises A

Environmental testing found OXA-48 #Ecoli from food handlers, some had no symptoms
One had travelled to SE Asia in 2017

The strain likely entered NZ once, then spread locally
#PublicHealth #Outbreak

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🧵The team used #genomics to reveal community spread of #AntimicrobialResistant bacteria in New Zealand

A carbapenemase-producing E. coli was spreading
Not in hospitals, in the community

We used whole-genome sequencing to investigate & start to learn what happened

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