Tag: outbreak

The #microbenet and BioBE Center stab at a review of COVID-19 and the Built Environment

By David Coil   Posted in .Featured Coronavirus Infectious Diseases Microbiology of the Built Environment
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(updated 4/7/20 with revised preprint and publication information) So late last week, the folks at the BioBE Center at the University of Oregon contacted us wanting to write a review of built environment considerations related to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.  We worked furiously on it for a couple of days and through the …

Legionella sequencing in tap water and clinical isolates from Flint, MI

By David Coil   Posted in .Featured Infectious Diseases Water Systems
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So this was a very interesting paper to be involved in.  On the one hand all our lab really did was to facilitate some genome sequencing and help with the assemblies, validation of those assemblies, and some genomics work.   Standard fare for the lab.  But… these were over 100 Legionella pneumophila isolates collected from either …