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exploring antimicrobial resistance during the covid-19 pandemic: a comprehensive analysis
july 2, 2024
dr mai zafer takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘antimicrobial resistance patterns among critical priority pathogens in an intensive care unit at a tertiary hospital in egypt: a descriptive analysis comparing pre- and covid-19 eras’ published in journal of medical microbiology.
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why wildlife sampling is hard
april 26, 2024
rachael tarlinton takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'lack of detection of sars-cov-2 in wildlife from kerala, india in 2020–21' published in access microbiology.
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genomic data helped us during covid-19. what other data can we use in the future?
september 11, 2023
dr ash porter takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication, 'the importance of utilizing travel history metadata for informative phylogeographical inferences: a case study of early sars-cov-2 introductions into australia' published in microbial genomics.
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microbe talk - a deep dive into wastewater monitoring
may 24, 2023
this month, inspired by a paper published in microbial genomics, clare takes a deep dive into the method of wastewater monitoring. she speaks to professor steve patterson and dr anne leonard about how wastewater monitoring is a useful tool which helps us understand not only the spread of diseases like covid-19, but also antimicrobial resistance.
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how should public health authorities use pathogen genomics in practice?
february 6, 2023
dr declan bradley takes us behind the scenes of his latest research 'how public health authorities can use pathogen genomics in health protection practice: a consensus-building delphi study conducted in the united kingdom' published in microbial genomics.
from the first detection of sars-cov-2 infection in humans, genomics was central to defining and understanding the threat posed by this emerging infectious disease. pathogen genomics services grew to operate at a scale that was orders of magnitude greater than before the covid-19 pandemic. health protection services in public health authorities are responsible for surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases. -
microbe talk: the impact of covid on research and career progression part 2
july 1, 2022
the latest edition of the 英格兰vs美国谁会赢？ ’s podcast, microbe talk, is now online. in the second part of this episode, eva scholtus and katie o’connor continue their discussion with colman, galleh, helen and natalie by discussing the existing issues within academia and what needs to be done to protect the workforce going forward.
they consider issues such as equality, diversity and inclusion, isolation and loneliness at work, managing heavy workloads, salary boundaries and the culture in academia. -
microbe talk: the impact of covid on research and career progression
june 29, 2022
the latest edition of the 英格兰vs美国谁会赢？ ’s podcast, microbe talk, is now online. in the first of this two part episode, eva scholtus and katie o’connor from our policy and engagement team interview colman, raphael, helen and nat about their experiences as early career researchers during the sars-cov-2 pandemic.
they consider issues such as equality, diversity and inclusion, isolation and loneliness at work, managing heavy workloads, salary boundaries and the culture in academia. -
coronastream may 2022: sars-cov-2’s party-going friends
may 31, 2022
in this special blog series, medical microbiologists led by dr tim inglis summarise some of the research that will be essential to inform covid-19 countermeasures. find out more about the project in dr inglis' editorial 'logic in the time of coronavirus', published in the journal of medical microbiology.
