NGD and CEO Paul Rhodes Announce Publication in mSphere

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CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Next Gen Diagnostics announces the publication in mSphere of a study validating the accuracy of its fully automated bioinformatics platform for the detection of transmission of infection. Titled "Large-scale evaluation of a rapid fully automated analysis platform to detect and refute outbreaks based on MRSA genome comparisons" and led by University of Cambridge Professor and NGD Scientific Advisory Board member Sharon Peacock, the study compared the detection of transmission clusters by the gold standard manual bioinformatics pipeline developed by the Peacock group for previous seminal publications on hospital transmission with the automated NGD system. Analyzing 3,311 case pairs, the paper reports that both the manual bioinformatics system and the NGD automated pipeline identified the same 66 transmission clusters. The authors concluded "…that [NGD's] automated transmission detection tool worked at least as well as a researcher-led manual analysis and indicates how such tools could support the rapid use of MRSA genomic epidemiology in infection control practice."