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Rhys White 🧬

@RhysTWhite

Scientist at @PHFScience | Turning #Genomics into intel | Tracking pathogen evolution, diversity, & spread | Welsh expat in New Zealand | Formerly @UQ_News
Wellington, New Zealand phfscience.nz/staff-profiles… Joined July 2016
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Rhys White 🧬 @RhysTWhite
📌20 years later: unravelling the genomic success of New Zealand’s home-grown AK3 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

How NZ’s #antibiotic habits fuelled a superbug
Once local, now global

Out now & #OpenAccess | @MicrobioSoc
doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…
www.microbiologyresearch.org 20 years later: unravelling the genomic success of New Zealand’s home-grown AK3 community-associa...
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Rhys White 🧬 @RhysTWhite
Same bacterium, new resistance.
A drug-susceptible NICU outbreak.
A successful MRSA lineage built step by step

Three NZ examples of what chromosome-focused surveillance can miss when mobile DNA carries epidemiological signals

doi.org/10.1071/MA26020

@AUSSOCMIC @CSIROPublishing
connectsci.au Mobile DNA as epidemiological engines: lessons from New Zealand Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest global public health threats of the 21st Century, yet it often spreads in ways that routine surveillan
Rhys White 🧬 @RhysTWhite
Hospital infections are sometimes assumed to spread between patients

But what if they’re not?

📌Decentralized nanopore genomics reveals diverse Klebsiella pneumoniae and no evidence of patient–patient transmission in a New Zealand hospital @MicrobioSoc

doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…
www.microbiologyresearch.org Decentralized nanopore genomics reveals diverse Klebsiella pneumoniae and no evidence of patient–...