Sara Maltinsky

This study tracks prevalence and co-carriage of respiratory pathogens in nursing home residents, finding distinct colonization patterns and persistence differences.

This paper develops a low-cost amplicon sequencing assay to rapidly characterize Staphylococcus aureus intrahost diversity directly from samples, enabling transmission analysis without whole-genome sequencing.

This paper introduces and validates population sequencing methods to analyze phylogenetic diversity in bacterial populations without haplotype reconstruction, demonstrating applications in tracking transmission and understanding pathogen dynamics.