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Tag Archives: MRSA
Spotlight on Grants: The motility of Staphylococcus aureus
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of grants that enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during the summer vacation. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a series of articles from students who were awarded … Continue reading
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Tagged Grants, Harry Smith Vacation Studentship, motility, MRSA, staphylococcus aureus
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Revisiting the Ancientbiotics project
It was this time last year at the Annual Conference that Dr Freya Harrison from the University of Nottingham gave a talk about the rediscovery she and her colleagues made of a 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon treatment for eye infections. A year … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancientbiotics, MRSA, Nottingham
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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
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