Category Archives: Module-basic microbiology and AMR
Basic microbiology module- short answer questions – annotated
Contrast the structure of gram negative and gram positive cell walls : This posting may be of interest – it contrasts why Gram negative and positive bacteria exhibit different antimicrobial susceptibilities. A knowledge of how the peptidoglycan cell wall is … Continue reading
Antibiotic resistance and prescribing presentation & quiz- Year 5 UPNG
Here is a copy of the presentation from the session given to year 5 Medicine students, February 2017 : year-5-presentation-ferguson-2017-b. Please send me your comments or further questions or put down a comment on this web posting! Here are the pre-session … Continue reading
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Human Intestinal Microbiome in Health and Disease – recent short NEJM review
Short interesting review of this cutting edge topic for your December delectation! “Human-associated microbes have primarily been viewed through the lens of a single species and its environment. Advances in culture independent technologies have shown the enormous diversity, functional … Continue reading
How well is your lab performing antimicrobial susceptibility testing?
Production of reliable AST results is critical for clinicians and their patients. AST results enable correct antibiotic therapy to be directed against the specific pathogen(s). Please review this brief presentations from our bacteriology scientist Fiona Oehme. EUCAST AST Quality Control F Courtney 2016 … Continue reading
Laboratory quality systems and lab capacity building programs
The WHO 2011 Handbook for laboratory quality management systems is the central resource used in developing laboratory systems for quality management. Print it out and get to know every section (below)! Expert Panel: Building Capacity for Diagnostics, GHDONLINE Boston-based international expert led … Continue reading
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) – EUCAST, CLSI, ECOFFs and Clinical Breakpoint determination
EUCAST is increasingly becoming the dominant international standard for various reasons and its procedures and documentation, including breakpoint tables are available online for free. For a recent overview of EUCAST, see this Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2014 lecture (free access). … Continue reading
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases postgraduate teaching (PRIDA) 