Steen Hoffmann

TL;DR: Borck Høg, Birgitte; Korsgaard, Helle Bisgaard; Wolff Sönksen, Ute; Torpdahl, Mia; Vorobieva, Veronika as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Analysis of 3,615 genome sequences permitted us to delineate the nature and timing of molecular events that contributed to an ongoing global human epidemic of infections caused by group A Streptococcus, the “flesh-eating” pathogen, and resolve a decades-long controversy about the type and sequence of genomic alterations that produced this explosive epidemic.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the incidence of invasive disease due to these pathogens during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and found that containment policies and public information campaigns likely reduced transmission of S pneumoniae, H influenzae, and N meningitidis, leading to a significant reduction in lifethreatening invasive diseases in many countries worldwide.

TL;DR: This work provides the first use of joint analysis of WGS and epidemiological data in an international programme for regional surveillance of sexually transmitted infections and provides a framework for genomic surveillance of gonococci through standardised sampling, use of W GS, and a shared information architecture for interpretation and dissemination.