Sentences with phrase «pressing public health threats»

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Antibiotic resistance, which occurs when bacteria change in a way that reduces the effectiveness of antibiotics, is among the most pressing public health threats.

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Fifteen months after the 1999 outbreak of West Nile virus in New York City, which sickened 62 mostly elderly people and killed seven, scientists are still hard pressed to predict how abundant the virus will eventually become or how serious a public health threat it will pose.

Given the pressing need to better understand this growing public health threat, our team in the Broad Fungal Genomics group (led by Christina Cuomo)-- in partnership with Anastasia Litvintseva at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and institutions around the globe — have examined outbreak isolates using whole - genome sequencing.