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Microbiology

Detailed Microbe Database Now Available Online

Covering a wide range of microbes, experts from leading environmental bio-contamination specialist, Bioquell, have developed a comprehensive and freely available online 'bug' database. The microsite features more than 30 of the most common environmental contaminants of ...More
November 21, 2011
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene
Reports Highlight Evolving Role of Clinical Microbiology Laboratories

With the increasing availability of sophisticated technologies to rapidly diagnose and treat infectious diseases, the duties and the role of clinical laboratory microbiologists, who traditionally perform these tests, could see significant changes in the next few years. That ...More
September 8, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
New Strategy for Developing Rapid Diagnostics

An international consortium of researchers has devised a novel strategy for developing rapid, inexpensive diagnostic tests for microbial infections. Effective treatment of microbial infection is critically dependent on early diagnosis and identification of the causative ...More
September 1, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Microbial Growth in Pharaoh's Tomb Suggests Burial was Rushed

In the tomb of King Tutankhamen, the elaborately painted walls are covered with dark brown spots that mar the face of the goddess Hathor, the silvery-coated baboons—in fact, almost every surface. Despite almost a century of scientific investigation, the precise identity of ...More
June 8, 2011
Posted in News
SNL Unlocks Secrets of Plague with New Imaging Techniques

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a super-resolution microscopy technique that is answering long-held questions about exactly how and why a cell’s defenses fail against some invaders, such as plague, while successfully fending off others like ...More
May 17, 2011
Posted in News
Clinical Microbiology, Infection Prevention Team Up to Fight HAIs

To understand where clinical microbiology is going in the future, it's helpful to take a quick trip back in history. Years ago, the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control project established the scientific basis for claims of efficacy of hospital-acquired ...More
April 11, 2011
Posted in Articles
BD Diagnostics, Bruker Collaborate to Improve Microbial ID, Antimicrobial Susceptability Testing

BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), and Bruker Daltonics Inc., a subsidiary of Bruker Corporation, announced today an international co-development and co-marketing collaboration that will promote an emerging, integrated approach to bacterial and ...More
September 29, 2010
Posted in News
Properly Laundered Uniforms Can Help Prevent HAIs, Reduce Costs

The Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) says healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) cause more than $30 billion a year in needless healthcare industry overhead which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), conservatively reflects 1.7 ...More
June 28, 2010
Posted in News
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Could be the Next Superbug

The rise of multidrug resistance in gonorrhea-causing bacteria is threatening to make this sexually-transmitted infection extremely difficult to treat. Professor Catherine Ison, speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting in Edinburgh, highlighted the ...More
March 30, 2010
Posted in News
Road Mapping Could be Key to Curing TB

The complex chain of metabolic events in bacteria that lead to fatal diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) may be better understood using mathematical models, according to an article published in the February issue of Microbiology Today. Scientists at the University of Surrey ...More
February 5, 2010
Posted in News