Max Bloomfield

Metatranscriptomics reveals diverse microbial communities in PCR-negative severe acute respiratory infections

The paper uses metatranscriptomics to analyze PCR-negative SARI samples, identifying microbial transcripts in 43% of cases and highlighting polymicrobial compositions and novel pathogens.

The need for speed: ultra-rapid high-resolution outbreak analysis in a front-line hospital microbiology laboratory

This study demonstrates that a cloud-based bioinformatics platform can rapidly analyze genomic data to detect hospital outbreaks with results comparable to manual analysis, without requiring bioinformatic expertise.

Resolving a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to the SNV level using Oxford Nanopore simplex reads and HERRO error correction

This paper applies HERRO error correction to Oxford Nanopore sequencing data to resolve a neonatal ICU MRSA outbreak at the SNV level, achieving results comparable to Illumina sequencing.