Ryann N. Whealy

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 study investigates the relationship between demographic factors, S. mutans colonization, and early childhood caries risk in preschool children from northern Arizona and Hawaii.

The paper investigates leptospirosis transmission among brown rats in Boston, finding high genetic structure and limited dispersal, with Leptospira clades linked to specific rat populations and a human case linked to rats.