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Phoebe Ashley-Norman of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Amber Barton about the neglected tropical disease, yaws. Efforts to eradicate yaws were first made in the 1950s through a WHO and UNICEF campaign that reduced yaws prevalence by 90%, but it remained endemic in some regions. 

Global efforts involving the mass drug administration of azithromycin continue in pursuit of the WHO 2030 yaws eradication goal. In this podcast, Amber discusses how genomic epidemiology can be used to investigate the effectiveness of yaws eradication strategies, detect sublineages of yaws at higher resolution, and improve our understanding of macrolide resistance.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Britt Koskella about bacteriophages and phageome, their role in modulating the bacteriome, their potential use as signatures of microbiome health and dysbiosis, and hence, indirectly, as markers of host health and disease status. 

From an ecological perspective, parasites (such as bacteriophages) are key drivers of the evolution of their hosts (bacteria), and so one might expect to find diverse and rich bacteriomes in the presence of a highly diverse and thriving microbiome: Britt has been exploring this possibility and discusses it in this episode.

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Christian Malaka and Dr Livia Patrono on mpox in the Central African Republic and how researchers are using genomic surveillance to provide insights into the epidemiology of the virus.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia talks with Dr Sam Lipworth and Prof Nicole Stoesser about the challenges and variability in genotypic predictions of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli, about which they have published two papers in The Lancet Microbe: “Exploring uncatalogued genetic variation in antimicrobial resistance gene families in Escherichia coli: an observational analysis” and “Estimating the association of antimicrobial resistance genes with minimum inhibitory concentration in Escherichia coli, an observational study”.

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Anastasia Theodosiou about performing a controlled human infection study in pregnant women investigating mother-to-infant transmission of Neisseria lactamica.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Susan Meiring, Vanessa Quan, and Nelesh Govender about bloodstream infections in neonates at lower-tier South African hospitals.

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Professor Laurence Armand-Lefevre and Professor Luc Hervé Samison about implementing the WHO Tricycle Protocol in Madagascar for the surveillance of extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli in humans, chickens, and the environment.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Zoe Dyson and Dr Philip Ashton about the genomic characterisation of population diversity, antimicrobial resistance profiles, and transmission patterns of Salmonella enterica serotypes Typhi and Paratyphi A in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Malawi.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Edwin Armitage, Saffiatou Darboe, and Lamin Jaiteh about Streptococcus pyogenes carriage and transmission in households in The Gambia.

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks with Professor Martin Hoenigl about the impact of climate change and natural disasters on fungal diseases.

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Nancy Chow about sporotrichosis and discusses a genomic epidemiology study of this zoonotic fungal disease among people and cats in Brazil.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Deborah Williamson and Michael Moso about non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory viral detection from COVID-19 rapid antigen test devices.

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Professor Kate Baker about the challenges, potential, and recommendations for using genomics to monitor antimicrobial resistance.

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe talks to Dr Erica Furhmeister about monitoring antimicrobial resistance using faecal metagenomes.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Jie Zhou and Dr Anika Singanayagam about their SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia du The Lancet Microbe converse avec Dr Fabrice Somé sur la surveillance de la résistance aux médicaments antipaludique et son étude récent qui a utilisé la xenosurveillance en Burkina Faso.

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Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Hanna Ehrlich about antimalarial drug resistance surveillance and her recent cross-sectional study using xenomonitoring in Burkina Faso.

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe talks to Dr Nichola Calvani about gender equity in science and Herminthology, an online initiative that produces online profiles of women working in parasitology. 

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Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe talks to Dr Michael Otto and his and his collaborators’ placebo-controlled phase 2 trial that used the probiotic Bacillus subtilis to reduce Staphylococcus aureus in adults who were colonised by the bacteria in the Songkhla region of Thailand.

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Probiotic for pathogen-specific Staphylococcus aureus decolonisation in Thailand

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Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr David Cameron about phage therapy and his and his colleagues’ recent systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of phage therapy in preclinical models of bacterial infection.

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Efficacy of phage therapy in preclinical models of bacterial infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Jonathan Blott talks to Dr Samuel Lipworth about his and his collaborators' investigation of the epidemiology of Mycobacterium abscessus in England and the risk of person-to-person transmission in health-care settings 

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Rachel Hellier talks to Prof Adrian Martineau about his and his collaborators’ study that identified Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in CD34-positive peripheral blood mononuclear cells of asymptomatic individuals in Ethiopia, a setting with a high tuberculosis burden.

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