Tracking plasmids for clinical and public health use

By the end of the course, participants will be able to explain the clinical relevance of plasmids in antimicrobial resistance and virulence dissemination, apply tools for plasmid assembly, annotation, typing and visualisation, evaluate the strengths and limitations of plasmid reconstruction using short- and long-read sequencing data, and analyse and compare plasmid sequences in outbreak and surveillance contexts.

Clinical microbiologists, public health specialists, infection control professionals and bioinformaticians who work with, or plan to work with, bacterial whole-genome sequencing data for surveillance or outbreak investigation.