MAGICAL
Microbiology, Advanced Genomics and Infection Control Applications Laboratory
Author: Matan Slutzkin
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Our new Legionella paper is out in CMI! Great collaboration with Public Health England and Lyon University Hospital, featuring extensive development and validation work for a lineage-specific qPCR assay based on WGS https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(19)30487-2/fulltext
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The 12th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers will take place in lovely Dubrovnik, Sep 18-21, 2019. The theme of the meeting is “moving towards genome-based surveillance”. Prof. Moran-Gilad, a member of the Scientific Committee, will speak in an expert panel featuring a Pro/Con debate concerning Clinical Metagenomics. https://www.escmid.org/fileadmin/src/media/PDFs/3Research_Projects/Programme_IMMEM12.pdf