Category Archives: Module-Skin soft tissue infection
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing – video masterclasses – Fiona Courtney
Consumables for AST – Set up of AST – Reading of the AST result – Thank you Fiona for these excellent explanations!
Practical bacteriology bench reading – wound swabs – video masterclasses from Dr Chris Ashhurst-Smith
20 minutes. Filming and production Felix Ferguson.
Skin soft tissue module – references for other important topics (part 2)
Scabies The efficacy of mass drug administration strategies to control scabies in a highly endemic population – NHMRC ongoing research project in the pacific . Scabies: an ancient global disease with a need for new therapies : recent BMC review – excellent … Continue reading
Skin and Soft tissue – Short answer questions- annotated
Describe how Staphylococcus aureus is identified in the lab : a discussion of methods should include: Gram stain appearance Colony morphology on blood agar – may be haemolytic- colour etc Coagulase detection – bound coagulase and tube coagulase – NB these … Continue reading
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases postgraduate teaching (PRIDA) 