Wessex Applied Microbiologists

03/05/2019

Fantastic news regarding HIV transmission in the Lancet today https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)30418-0/fulltext

Our results provide a similar level of evidence on viral suppression and HIV transmission risk for gay men to that previously generated for heteros*xual couples and suggest that the risk of HIV transmission in gay couples through condomless s*x when HIV viral load is suppressed is effectively zero.....

20/01/2019

Sad times

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17/10/2018

Have you all seen this from the IBMS?

On behalf of our members, the IBMS has raised concerns with UKAS about the consistency in approach of assessors and their application of the ISO 15189 standards. We have published their response here: https://www.ibms.org/resources/news/ukas-response-over-iso-15189-member-concerns/

19/07/2018

One. More. Sleep. It’s tomorrow and events to raise awareness will be happening all over the country. Help us spread the word about the vital role that biomedical science plays in everybody's healthcare.

Don't forget to enter the competitions (https://bit.ly/2zupJMc) by sharing your photos and using the hashtags. Let’s show everyone that this great profession is . We wish you all the best for your events. Good luck everyone!

10/04/2018

Hits home :'(

05/04/2018

Seems a bit extreme

WHAT THE..?!?! 😦

04/04/2018

A little late, but it's so fluffy!

It's not every day you see cuddly animals in mould.

We love this post from clinicallaboratoryblogspot.com.

Happy Easter!

07/03/2018

Mandalas, radial geometric patterns originating in Hindu and Buddhist traditions, have been featured in many entries in ASM's contest. Best goes to "Flower Mandala" by Laura Knoll, Akita Joshi, and Mireya Dura for its intricate design. They used Klebsiella sp. (teal), Enterococcus (dark blue), and Staph. saprophyticus (light pink) on chromogenic agar for the center, and E. coli (pink) and S. marsescens (red) on MacConkey agar for the surrounding plates. How many microbe/agar combos can YOU use? Don't forget to submit by April 13: http://ow.ly/sMoU30iLBmq

12/12/2017

This years christmas BMJ :) http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5397

Feature Christmas 2017: All creatures great and small Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary care resources? BMJ 2017; 359 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j5397 (Published 11 December 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;359:j5397 Article Related content Metrics Responses Peer review Catheri...

12/12/2017

Four people from the town of Nyeri have been hospitalized with suspected anthrax after consuming tainted meat, according to a Daily Nation report. The four, two brothers and two neighbors, are admitted to an isolation ward at Mt Kenya Hospital Nyeri. Nyeri Central sub-county commissioner John Marete...

06/12/2017

Cheery start to the Chrismas season

28/11/2017

Haha!

10/11/2017

It's easy to tell.

By Twisteddoodles.

20/10/2017

Funny and scary

Classic from Beatrice the Biologist

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/26/rule-patients-must-finish-antibiotics-course-wrong-study-says

"Patients have traditionally been told that they must complete courses of antibiotics, the theory being that taking too few tablets will allow the bacteria causing their disease to mutate and become resistant to the drug.

But Martin Llewelyn, a professor in infectious diseases at Brighton and Suss*x medical school, and colleagues claim that this is not the case. In an analysis in the British Medical Journal, the experts say “the idea that stopping antibiotic treatment early encourages antibiotic resistance is not supported by evidence, while taking antibiotics for longer than necessary increases the risk of resistance”.
~Anisa

08/09/2017

Every time...

Every scientist has family who wish they had these cards...

03/09/2017

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The Partner State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology (ABCT) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) discovered a newly emerged superbug, hyper-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, which may cause untreatable and fatal in...

16/08/2017

Very excited that we have nearly finalised the 2017 Symposium Agenda. Out soon. In the mean time save the date: 03/11/17