Nature – Pathogens
- A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak investigation at a storage and distribution centre in England: an assessment of worker- and workplace-related risk factors April 26, 2024
- Intraorbital amphotericin B for mucormycosis in an Allo-HSCT recipient April 25, 2024
- Loss of TRIM29 mitigates viral myocarditis by attenuating PERK-driven ER stress response in male mice April 25, 2024
- Estimating SARS-CoV-2 infection probabilities with serological data and a Bayesian mixture model April 25, 2024
- SARS-CoV-2 and its ORF3a, E and M viroporins activate inflammasome in human macrophages and induce of IL-1α in pulmonary epithelial and endothelial cells April 25, 2024
Nature – AMR
- Biodiversity of carbapenem-resistant bacteria in clinical samples from the Southwest Amazon region (Rondônia/Brazil) April 23, 2024
- Detection and genomic characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli harboring tet(X4) in black kites (Milvus migrans) in Pakistan April 20, 2024
- A role for the stringent response in ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa April 13, 2024
- A folate inhibitor exploits metabolic differences in Pseudomonas aeruginosa for narrow-spectrum targeting April 9, 2024
- Author Correction: The plasmidome associated with Gram-negative bloodstream infections: a large-scale observational study using complete plasmid assemblies April 9, 2024
Outbreaks
- Measles global outbreak continues to spread April 16, 2024
- Dad goes Viral on TikTok: Daughter has Pinworms April 16, 2024
CDC
- SARS-CoV-2 Viral Shedding and Rapid Antigen Test Performance — Respiratory Virus Transmission Network, November 2022–May 2023 April 25, 2024
- Investigation of Presumptive HIV Transmission Associated with Receipt of Platelet-Rich Plasma Microneedling Facials at a Spa Among Former Spa Clients — New Mexico, 2018–2023 April 25, 2024
Food Safety News
- USDA declares that Salmonella is an adulterant in some chicken products April 26, 2024
- Fatal Listeria outbreak linked to smoked salmon April 26, 2024
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Happy New Year !!
Contributed by Robin Jones It’s New Year’s Eve! As a child I couldn’t wait to see if I could stay awake long enough to celebrate the turning of the clock from 11:59 pm to 12:00 am. I would always have 1 party … Continue reading
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Regulation with WGS – The Wild West has Returned
Contributed by Bart Weimer Ph.D. WGS is becoming the method of choice for food safety outbreak and surveillance. The US CDC, US FDA, and the EU CDC (ECDC) have all announced that they will transition from pervious typing methods and … Continue reading
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Immunotherapy
Contributed by Carol Huang The recent news about former president Jimmy Carter’s cancer has stopped spreading and is “responding well to treatment,” has drawn great attention to immunotherapy. Carter, 91, announced in August that four spots of cancer, melanoma had … Continue reading
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Persistant Bacteria
Contributed by Bart C. Weimer, Ph.D. Food microbiologists have wrestled with the concept of non-culturable bacteria (NCB). It is well accepted in environmental microbiology the NCB are common. The expanded importance of the gut microbiome has raised this issue to … Continue reading
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Haiti’s Five-Year Cholera Outbreak, and How Not All Aid Is Helpful
Contributed by Azarene Foutouhi Following a devastating earthquake in 2010 Haiti felt the beginnings of a Cholera outbreak. As in the case of many natural disasters, there was a resultant influx of aid in the form of supplies and volunteers … Continue reading
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Pharmacomicrobiomics
Contributed by Ning Chin The U.S. National Institutes of Health has devoted a considerable amount of research funds on the Human Microbiome Project. Since 2008, a lot of research was done to identify the species of bacteria existing on the … Continue reading
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Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcers
Contributed by Roberto Torres Helicobacter pylori is a gram negative bacterium which colonizes the human gastric mucosa. In the 1980’s, through biopsies and histological observations, Doctors Robin Warren and Barry Marshall proposed that peptic ulcers were caused by a gastric epithelial … Continue reading
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Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) and citrus greening disease
Contributed by Nguyet Kong The beneficial bacteria in the citrus tree is actually the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), a pest that is the carrier spreading huanglongbing (HLB) The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), which spreads the pathogen believed to cause citrus greening … Continue reading
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Weddings—a coming together of microbiomes.
Contributed by Poyin Chen For my upcoming wedding, we will have a tree planting ceremony. As part of the ceremony, we will be planting our little love tree in soil from both of our families’ homes…a little from the Bay … Continue reading
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