Alberta Precision Laboratories

Incidence and factors associated with fusobacterium infection: prospective from a population-based cohort study

Fusobacterium species infections present a diverse clinical burden, yet population-based data on their epidemiology and risk factors for bloodstream infection remain sparse. We aimed to characterize the clinical epidemiology of Fusobacterium and identify risk factors of bloodstre...

Genomic global epidemiology and evolution of Escherichia coli ST131 clade A

During the 2010s, Escherichia coli ST131 clade A tested sensitive to most antibiotics. In the 2020s, Europe experienced outbreaks of fluoroquinolone-resistant ST131-A that contained CTX-M β-lactamases and OXA-48-like carbapenemases. We investigated the acquisition of different an...