Antimicrobial Resistance – Page 2 – UK Health Security Agency

Proteomics: studying proteins to fight disease

Christine McCartney, 17 March 2014 - Antimicrobial resistance, Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health

...of the proteome. In PHE, one of the ways that we analyse bacterial proteins is using mass spectrometry (MS) technology. This has helped our scientists to understand more about which...

Mistreating the treatment: the struggle against antibiotic resistance

Paul Cosford, 18 November 2013 - Antimicrobial resistance, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health

Antibiotics have been around for nearly 70 years. Many people still alive today may remember them first being used to treat casualties from the Second World War. Around 1944 a newspaper billboard proclaimed that ‘Penicillin cures gonorrhoea in four hours …