Tag Archives: Microbiology
2016 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The ECCMID recently met in Amsterdam to talk all things Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. They have made the majority of the presentations made at the meeting freely available to all online. With over 200 sessions, including 11 keynote lectures, over 100 symposia and oral sessions and 3000 abstracts presented over 4 days there is something […]
Chocolate Agar for Easter
Chocolate agar is an enriched non specific growth medium which is used to grow and isolate pathogenic bacteria. Its also known as chocolate blood agar and is made using blood that has been slowly heated to 80 degrees. So probably not a great choice as a gift! Chocolate agar is a variant of blood agar […]
Microbial Masterpieces
The American Society for Microbiology has recently held their Agar Art competition. This competition involves agar plates painted with cultures to make beautiful works of art.
Updates on Hunter New England infectious disease and antibiotic resistance epidemiology
All Hunter New England cumulative antibiograms have been recently updated for the period 2013_14. There are separate reports by region, stratified by specimen type (urine cultures vs non-urine samples). Signal resistance analyses are included (for key multi-resistant organisms – MRSA, VRE, MR-Gram negatives). Overall, the demonstrated antibiotic susceptibility does not demonstrate bacterial resistance levels that go […]
AIMED - Let's talk about antibiotics 