Nathan E. Stone

Clinical and molecular characterization of an outbreak of leptospirosis in dogs from Los Angeles County, California, USA, 2021

This study characterizes a leptospirosis outbreak in dogs in Los Angeles County, finding that all isolates were Leptospira interrogans serovar Canicola, with urine PCR as the most sensitive test and ICFs as a potential source.

Host population structure and rare dispersal events drive leptospirosis transmission patterns among Rattus norvegicus in Boston, Massachusetts, US

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.

A global to local genomics analysis of Clostridioides difficile ST1/RT027 identifies cryptic transmission events in a northern Arizona healthcare network

This study uses whole genome sequencing to analyze C. difficile isolates and identifies multiple introductions and transmission events in a healthcare network, highlighting genetic variability and antimicrobial resistance.