Linzy Elton

Amazon confirms it had TB outbreak at Coventry warehouse As staff continue to be tested as a precaution, Amazon says, a union calls for the site's closure.

TB is an increasing problem in certain areas in the UK, often due to migration from endemic areas. It's curious that all cases appear to be latent, but better safe than sorry... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

nterested in learning how to combat infectious disease threats to humans and animals? PhD studentships available through the BBSRC-funded Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Programme. Deadline 23rd January 2026. www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...

Applications open for the African STARS Fellowship. Four months of immersive Advanced and Translational Training (ATT) in South Africa or Senegal. Deadline 31 January 2026 - More info: www.starsfellows.africa/applyattypp/

The #CCMBucketHat was in Maputo, Mozambique last week with Leticia Muraro-Wildner and @linzyelton.bsky.social to undertake a clinical trials site visit at the Instituto Nacional de Saúde

The #CCMBucketHat was in Lithuania last week with @linzyelton.bsky.social & @dallasroulston.bsky.social visiting NVSPL to run a workhop on using @nanoporetech.com for surveillance of pathogens and #AMR, #metagenomics of wastewater and #16S for clinical samples! Thanks to the team for hosting us!

Plain language summary: Use of metagenomics for One Health surveillance of environmental AMR in a UK veterinary centre Also available as a podcast here. This is a plain language summary of a paper we (myself and colleagues across UCL and the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) wrote, which describes how we used sequenci…

Don't forget, there's a plain language summary of our recently pubished paper utilising #metagenomics to identify #pathogens and #AMR in veterinary hospital environments on my blog: linzyelton628749128.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/p...

A metagenomic approach to One Health surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in a UK veterinary centre There are currently no standardized guidelines for genomic surveillance of One Health antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This project aimed to utilize metagenomics to identify AMR genes present in a comp...

Published! Our paper utilising #metagenomics to look at #pathogens and #AMR in the veterinary environment, and how it relates to clinical infections: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Blog: Environmental AMR surveillance in clinical settings – insights from two metagenomic case studies

The team at @zymoresearch.bsky.social have written a blog about the use of environmental #metagenomics in two of our recent papers, highlighting its use for #AMR #surveillance across #OneHealth settings www.bioscience.co.uk/blog/environ...

Some of the CCM clinical trials team joined the PanACEA annual meeting in Cape Town, South Africa 3-5 June. A celebration of all the work achieved, and a look forward to all of the things we can work towards with PanACEA3!

If you're working on #genomics #surveillance #OneHealth and #AMR, consider publishing your research in the Antibiotics special issue! Link: www.mdpi.com/journal/anti...

In our final video on #clinicaltrials, @linzyelton.bsky.social explains what a site coordinator does when they visit each of the labs! Coordinators work closely with the lab teams to help make sure that all work is being done according to the trial guidelines, making the data robust.

Those of you who have followed us on other platforms know that the #CCMBucketHat has been to 6 continents and over 10 countries in the last two years! We'll keep you updated with it's travels!

Next up in our series of videos on #clinicaltrials, @linzyelton.bsky.social explains what a day in the life of our laboratory scientists looks like! We work with sites all over the world and each trial is different, but with many hundreds of #tuberculosis patients enrolled, it's always busy!

Thanks Gabriele! I did a media fellowship (supported by @ucl-global.bsky.social) and learned how to better use digital media for my research purposes!

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…

(4/4) If you're looking for the plain language version of our paper, see my blog article here: linzyelton628749128.wordpress.com/2023/06/01/p...

(3/4) Link to the sequencing tutorial videos here: pandora.tghn.org/sequencing/s...

A pandemic within a pandemic? Admission to COVID-19 wards in hospitals is associated with increased prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in two African settings - Annals of Clinical Microbiology and... Background Patients who develop severe illness due to COVID-19 are more likely to be admitted to hospital and acquire bacterial co-infections, therefore the WHO recommends empiric treatment with antib...

(2/4) Link to the open access publication here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

(1/4) The research I led looking at #AMR in #COVID patients was highlighted at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the High-level Meeting, so we thought we'd create a short video highlighting our work in Sudan and Zambia. Links to the paper and resources in thread below...

We're part of many #tuberculosis #ClinicalTrial studies, and site coordinator @linzyelton.bsky.social has made a series of videos to try and dispel the myths about clinical trials! First up, a look at OptiRimox; why (and how) it's run, and why trials are so important!

Are you interested in @nanoporetech.com sequencing? Want to sequence amplicons or do #metagenomics? Our postdoc @linzyelton.bsky.social has published a tutorial video for the Rapid PCR Barcoding (RPB114) kit to help you get started! pandora.tghn.org/sequencing/s...

Are you interested in @nanoporetech.com sequencing? Want to do whole genome sequencing? Our postdoc @linzyelton.bsky.social has published a tutorial video for the Rapid Barcoding kit (RBK114) to help you get started! pandora.tghn.org/sequencing/s...

Notes from a small scientist Accessible science!

Hello! I'm Linzy and I'm a postdoc at @ucl-ccm.bsky.social! I do science communications and capacity development, you can read my blog here: linzyelton628749128.wordpress.com