Plain language summary: A pragmatic pipeline for drug resistance identification in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using whole genome sequencing

Also available as an audio podcast here. This is a plain language summary of a paper we (myself and colleagues from the UK, Zambia, Gabon, Republic of Congo and Sudan) wrote, which describes how we have developed a whole genome sequencing (WGS) tool for tuberculosis (TB). The idea was to help resource constrained laboratories identify

Plain language summary: A pandemic within a pandemic? Admission to COVID-19 wards in hospitals is associated with increased prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in two African settings

Also available as an audio podcast here. This is a plain language summary of a paper we (myself and colleagues from the Centre for Clinical Microbiology at UCL, and colleagues from HerpeZ in Lusaka, Zambia and the Institute for Endemic Diseases (IEND) in Khartoum, Sudan) wrote about how well prepared countries in sub-Saharan Africa are

Plain language summary: Zoonotic disease preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries

Also available as an audio podcast here. This is a plain language summary of a paper we (myself and colleagues from across the PANDORA-ID-NET group) wrote about how well prepared countries in sub-Saharan Africa are when it comes to tackling zoonotic diseases. If you want the link to the original paper, you can find it here. In this

Plain language summary: Antimicrobial resistance preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries

Also available as an audio podcast here. This is a plain language summary of a paper we (myself and colleagues from across the PANDORA-ID-NET group) wrote about how well prepared countries in sub-Saharan Africa are when it comes to tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR). If you want the link to the original paper, you can find