Robyn S. Lee

The paper develops a model to infer bacterial transmission using deep sequencing data from a mouse model, showing that within-host variant abundance differences can accurately identify transmission pairs.

The paper uses deep sequencing to identify a super-spreader of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an Inuit outbreak, revealing previously undetected transmission patterns.

The paper uses genomic analysis to assess MDRO transmission within and across hospitals, finding high transmission rates for vanA VRE and linking genomic data with epidemiologic data to evaluate infection control.

The paper analyzes the genomic epidemiology of VREfm in Victoria, Australia, finding that vanA-VREfm is associated with multiple STs and clonal transmission within hospitals, while vanB-VREfm is widespread and disseminated across institutions.