Housed near Bristol, UKHSA’s National Collection of Pathogenic Fungi (NCPF) is home to more than 4,500 isolates of potentially deadly fungi isolates, gathered over the last century.
In this blog post, we’ll cover the history of the NCPF: why it was set up, what it houses and how it continues to play an important role in protecting our health.
Anyone who has read some of the earlier entries in this blog cannot fail to be impressed by the speed at which our public health science is evolving and the rate at which our medical microbiology is modernising. Of course, …
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