The editors of @AppEnvMicro deemed our work worthy of a place in the Spotlight Selection of their journal! A cherry on top of the publication that I am most grateful for! #aspergillus#AMR
@AppEnvMicro Spotlight 💡 Hylke Kortenbosch and team describe a new method for the quantification of airborne resistance fractions and quick genotyping of the spores of the fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. @Shortenbosch @EvelineSnelders
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https://t.co/MmRethU2FZ
Looking forward to sharing some of our work on the spatial component of airborne triazole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus this afternoon at #IMC12 My talk will be in Session 20, room Sydney at 18:00!
Many thanks to everyone involved in the international pilot study included in this paper! Your contribution was essential for us to test its ease of use and explore airborne triazole resistance across Europe!
Last fall, I together with @BBriggeman_ and @EvelineSnelders was able to use this method in the citizen science project @Schimmelradar to spatially sample the Dutch air with the help >400 citizen scientists. More to follow on that project at a later time ;)
Very excited that we have finally submitted our full delta trap air sampling protocol for peer review! Two years ago, we set out to map triazole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus throughout the Netherlands.
https://t.co/MyHE9THcYz
With the help of many European collaborators, we were able to set up a European pilot study using this method and found that colony yields from the traps can vary significantly across the regions we sampled. With higher numbers in and near the Benelux area than most elsewhere.
Quantifying antifungal resistance in the air is key for assessing health risks and identifying resistance hotspots. Together with @EvelineSnelders et al. I have been working on a method that can help us do so:
https://t.co/ZKkp8HTLKZ #CatchingmoreAspergillus