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, …
Over the past 70 years antibiotics have been hugely important in our defence against infectious diseases caused by bacteria. However, bacterial resistance to antibiotics is becoming a global public health...
...massive scale of this project. These changes will have a direct impact on the information available for the detection and management of infectious disease. Having said this, it is also...
...Life Sciences, One Year On”, sets out plans to make the UK a world-leading place for life sciences investment. Public Health England is willingly engaging with this and has a...
...E. coli O157, shigella and TB. There are several caveats though, as with any new technology. Firstly, we need to have some caution in interpretation of results at this early...