Van Helden

Mar 27, 2024 | contagionlive.com | Van Helden

Antimicrobial stewardship programs have become standard across hospitals in the United States in response to a 2014 recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 Although progress has been made in optimizing use of antimicrobials since their implementation, many programs face resource and personnel constraints that limit their capacity.

Sep 8, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Clinical Bioinformatics |Bioinformatics Unit |Van Helden |Aix-Marseille Univ

Introduction High-throughput Sequencing (HTS) has made a huge impact in medicine, and pushed us into the era of personalized and genomic medicine. Microbiology is one of the fields where an unprecedented revolution has taken place, as HTS allows genomic characterization of pathogens of interest at clinical and public health levels, which eases their surveillance and outbreak control, making the concept of One Health (1, 2) a reality.