New paper out in BMC Public Health on the MY-Pneumo study protocol - pneumococcal infections among children with pneumonia in Peninsular Malaysia bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Multicentre case–control study of pneumococcal infections among children with pneumonia in Peninsular Malaysia (MY-Pneumo): a study protocol - BMC Public Health

Background S. pneumoniae (SPN) is the most common cause of pneumonia. The disease can be effectively prevented through immunisation. Since December 2020, the Malaysian Government has included the 10-v...

Evolutionary dynamics of genome structure and content among closely related bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Interesting paper looking at bacterial evolution over ~100 years - in E. coli ST131. 1 structural change per 3 core genome SNPs.

New paper from me and lots of fantastic colleagues - Did COVID-19 lockdowns change carriage of other respiratory tract bacteria in children? Sort of. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 transiently reduced pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae carriage in a cross-sectional pediatric cohort in Southampton, UK | Microbiology Spectrum

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) continues to be a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality. Using our long-running pediatric study, we examined changes in pneumococcal carriage ...

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Really important paper in MGen today. Evaluating the impact of genomic epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on hospital infection prevention and control decisions www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Evaluating the impact of genomic epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on hospital infection prevention and control decisions

Genomic epidemiology enhances the ability to detect and refute methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks in healthcare settings, but its routine introduction requires further eviden...

Noted!

A common question, and has been considered, but unfortunately not at the moment.

New paper in BMC Genomics - taken a while to get this one over the line but delighted our study of #Klebsiellardcu.be/dE34S

Our next Analysing Microbial Genomics Data (AMGD) course is open for registration. A hands-on, week long, tutorial based introduction to the field featuring additional talks from IMI and UoB researchers. Dates: 1st to 5th July, hurry as places limited! www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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Job Fairy................opportunity to take up an ACL post in ID www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGU421/n...

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