Evaluation of the GenoType NTM-DR line probe assay for nontuberculous mycobacteria using whole genome sequences as reference standard.

Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) disease is an emerging public health challenge that is especially problematic in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). Effective treatment depends on accurate species and subspecies identification and antimicrobial susceptibility status. We evaluated the GenoType NTM-DR VER 1.

Risk Factors for and Outcomes Following Early Acquisition of Complex After Lung Transplantation.

Background: Lung transplant recipients are at increased risk of complex (MABC) acquisition and invasive infection. We analyzed risk factors and outcomes of early post-lung transplant MABC acquisition.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective matched case-control study of patients who underwent lung transplant from 1/1/2012 to 12/31/2021 at a single large tertiary care facility.

acquisition from hospital tap water: a genomic and epidemiologic analysis.

We identified 23 cases of respiratory acquisition linked to a colonized plumbing system at a new hospital addition. We conducted a genomic and epidemiologic investigation to assess for clonal acquisition of from hospital water sources and improve understanding of genetic distances between isolates. We performed whole-genome sequencing on 28 .

Complete genome sequence of strain C14-1.MIM isolated from a hospitalized lung transplant recipient.

is a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria species that can cause healthcare-associated infections. We report the complete genome of C14-1.MIM, isolated via culture of a respiratory specimen obtained from a hospitalized lung transplant recipient.

The R-SNARE Ykt6 is required for multiple events during oogenesis in Drosophila.

Ykt6 has emerged as a key protein involved in a wide array of trafficking events, and has also been implicated in a number of human pathologies, including the progression of several cancers. It is a complex protein that simultaneously exhibits a high degree of structural and functional homology, and yet adopts differing roles in different cellular contexts. Because Ykt6 has been implicated in a variety of vesicle fusion events, we characterized the role of Ykt6 in oogenesis by observing the phenotype of Ykt6 germline clones.

Genomic Analysis of a Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Implications on Transmission.

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has recently been used to investigate acquisition of Mycobacterium abscessus. Investigators have reached conflicting conclusions about the meaning of genetic distances for interpretation of person-to-person transmission. Existing genomic studies were limited by a lack of WGS from environmental M.