-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Animal Microbiology
- Champions
- Clinical and Medical Microbiology
- Emerging Diseases
- Environmental Microbiology
- Epidemiology
- Events
- Food Microbiology
- Grants
- History of Science
- Microbial Evolution and Diversity
- Microbiome
- Mycology
- New to Science
- On the Horizon
- Open Data
- Parasitology
- Plant Microbiology
- Podcast
- Policy
- Professional Development
- Publishing
- Technology
- Uncategorized
- Video
- Virology
MicrobioSoc on Twitter
- Have you read the latest Review in #MGen? @arwynedwards et al. highlight priority areas to ensure that microbial ge… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 hours ago
- In this blog series, @InglisTim summarises some of the research that will be essential to inform COVID-19 counterme… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 7 hours ago
- The deadline to apply for a Society-Supported Conference Grant of up to £2,000 is 8 June 2020. The awards are avail… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 7 hours ago
Follow Microbe Post via Email
Tag Archives: antimicrobial resistance
Chief Medical Officer names new programmes for antimicrobial research
Last week, during a House of Commons Select Committee hearing, Professor Dame Sally Davies – the Government’s Chief Medical Officer – named two new government programmes intended to coordinate antimicrobial research. She also called for the creation of a collaborative research network … Continue reading
Silver nanoparticles have antibacterial properties!
Post by Rebecca Way, University of Aberdeen Silver nanoparticles have been shown to have effective antibacterial activity against a range of disease-causing bacteria. In this study featured in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, nano-silver was put to the test against … Continue reading
Bacterioides fragilis: resistance is rising
Post by Naomi Osborne, ThermoFisher Scientific The emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) micro-organisms is ever increasing; Staphylococcus aureus, Clostrium difficile, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Acinetobacter baumanii – the list seems endless. A review published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology discusses the … Continue reading
Virulence mechanisms of MRSA
Post by Daniel Amund, London Metropolitan University The emergence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains as potentially lethal pathogens is a continuing cause for public health concern worldwide. An understanding of the various virulence mechanisms used by these antibiotic-resistant bacterial … Continue reading
A new player in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm regulation
Post by Sarah Maddocks, Cardiff Metropolitan University Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a human pathogen commonly associated with lung infections in cystic fibrosis sufferers, and is emerging as the most prevalent cause of infection in burns patients. Multidrug-resistant strains of P. aeruginosa … Continue reading
Fighting infectious fungi with vaccines
Post by Rebecca Way, University of Aberdeen With antifungal treatments failing due to increasing resistance to antimicrobials, fungal infections are emerging as a silent killer in the healthcare setting. Scientists are researching strategies to overcome this problem and are trying … Continue reading