Henry Wong

The paper introduces a blocking primer to improve detection of tick-borne pathogens in Ixodes scapularis ticks using 16S rRNA metabarcoding, achieving sensitivity comparable to qPCR and detecting additional pathogens.

This study investigates variations in carbapenem resistance linked to the VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamase across Enterobacterales, showing resistance depends on genomic context and epistatic interactions.

The paper develops tiled PCR assays for RSV whole genome sequencing, enabling high-throughput surveillance and improved phylogenetic analysis with more discriminatory mutations identified.