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Tag Archives: Antibiotics
New antibiotics needed: Salmonella
As part of World Antibiotics Awareness Week, we are continuing our New Antibiotics Needed blog series with Salmonella. Salmonella is the gram-negative genus of bacteria in the Enterobacteriaceae family and iscommonly associated with food poisoning. The genus contains just two species; S. enterica and S. bongori. … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Emerging Diseases
Tagged AMR, Antibiotics, salmonella, typhoid fever
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Streptomyces – Nature’s Solution to AMR
Antibiotics were one of the most important medical discoveries of the 20th century. Before their discovery, infections of even small cuts had the potential to be fatal. What started with Fleming’s discovery of Penicillin in 1928 led to the development of … Continue reading
Policy Lunchbox: Review on Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial-resistant infections are an increasing global threat, serious enough that in July 2014 the then-UK Prime Minister David Cameron asked Lord Jim O’Neill to lead a major independent Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, to analyse the global challenges posed by antimicrobial … Continue reading
Cows on antibiotics release more methane from their dung
It’s a well-known fact that cattle and other livestock are responsible for releasing greenhouse gases like methane into the atmosphere. However, contrary to popular belief, it’s actually bovine burps, not farts, that are to blame. Methane from belching is a … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology
Tagged Antibiotics, climate change, Cows, dung, dung beetle, greenhouse gas, Methane, Microbiome
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Old, deep and close to home: the places that scientists are looking for new drugs
Many of the drugs we use in hospitals – antibiotics, antifungals and anti-cancer drugs, to name but a few – are produced by bacteria that live in the soil beneath our feet. Most of the antibiotics we use were discovered … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Clinical and Medical Microbiology
Tagged Antibiotics, ants, bioprospecting, cats, Desert, Golf, Marine sponge, soil
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Surfer bums and antibiotic resistant bacteria
Are surfers at greater risk of being colonised by antibiotic resistant bacteria? Anne Leonard, a PhD student at the University of Exeter Medical School, is trying to find out. Anne is part of a research team led by Dr William Gaze … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Video
Tagged AMR, Antibiotics, bacteria, beach, bum, E. coli, resistance, surfing
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Antibiotics: weapons or signals?
Bacteria and fungi have naturally been producing antibiotics for millions of years. Over the last century, we have been able to harness the power of these compounds for our own uses to treat infections. But what are antibiotics actually used … Continue reading
Microbe Talk Extra: Something in the water
Where do antibiotics end up after we’ve used them? The answer is almost everywhere – in our soils and crops, in our rivers and in our drinking water. Is this something we should be concerned about? And is it driving … Continue reading
Microbe Talk Extra: Culture Collections
Private Ernest Cable was a WW1 soldier who died on 13 March 1915 and his body now lies in a communal cemetery in Wimereux, France. Records suggest that Cable was the first British soldier in WW1 to die from dysentery … Continue reading
Posted in History of Science, Podcast
Tagged Antibiotics, Culture Collections, Dysentery, Fleming, Julie Russell, NCTC, Shigella, WW1
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Microbe Talk: June 2015
We’ve been out and about this month, interviewing researchers in Glasgow, Manchester and Galway for the podcast. Up first, Ben travelled to Scotland to chat with Dr Adam Kucharski from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Adam is … Continue reading