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NewsNew guideline for Helicobacter pylori includes change to primary treatment recommendation
New guidelines on the treatment of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection warn against prescribing PPI triple therapy, instead advising practitioners to use bismuth quadruple therapy or one of the other suggested treatment options.
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NewsPublic health experts put out call for collaboration in antiviral therapeutics development coalition
Establishing a global therapeutics development coalition is a vital next step to invigorate the therapeutics pipeline and drive advocacy for increased investment and coordination of end-to-end therapeutics development, say a group of public health experts.
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NewsFirst phase of polio campaign concludes successfully in Gaza
More than 187,000 children under ten years of age were vaccinated with novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) in central Gaza during the first phase of a two-round polio vaccination campaign, conducted between 1–3 September 2024.
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NewsMeet the Global Ambassadors: Our Q&A with Sergio L Alves jr
The Microbiologist chats with our new Global Ambassador for Brazil, Sergio L Alves jr, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS).
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NewsWHO data show shock increase in annual cholera deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published global cholera statistics for 2023, showing an increase in cases and deaths.
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NewsNIH awards will support innovation in syphilis diagnostics
NIAID has awarded grants for 10 projects to improve diagnostic tools for congenital and adult syphilis—conditions currently diagnosed with a sequence of tests, each with limited precision.
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NewsResearcher explores wastewater’s role in antimicrobial resistance
An Oregon State University researcher will receive $2.35 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to explore what happens to antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their genes after they reach wastewater systems throughout the United States.
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NewsNew global guidance aims to curb antibiotic pollution from manufacturing
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first-ever guidance on antibiotic pollution from manufacturing, focusing on wastewater and solid waste management.
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NewsUC Santa Barbara to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Cal Poly Pomona receive a six-year, $22 million grant to establish a first-of-its-kind BioFoundry that focuses on largely untapped and unexplored extreme microbes.
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NewsDisease X is a threat to free societies - so pandemic preparedness is vital this time round
The Covid-19 pandemic uncovered fracture lines in society that have the potential to destabilize free societies by internal and external groups using misinformation on social media, a new review warns.
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NewsNIH grant establishes UAB’s Global Research Resource for Human Tuberculosis
A $5.8m grant led by Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Africa Health Research Institute, or AHRI, in Durban, South Africa, will provide user-requested infected human lung tissue and analytical services to tuberculosis researchers worldwide.
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NewsResearchers granted $5m to study antibiotic-resistant wound infections in Ukraine
A new project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense partners emergency medicine faculty with research clinicians in Ukraine to launch a research platform for studying war-related wound infections and inform future clinical trials.
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NewsNew microbial fermentation manufacturing facility launched in Billingham
The UK’s life science sector has been bolstered by a £100m investment by FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies. This takes the form of a new microbial fermentation manufacturing facility in Billingham.
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NewsWHO: Cholera surges as response efforts hit by critical shortage of Oral Cholera Vaccines
Since the start of the year, more than 300,000 cases of cholera and 2,326 deaths have been recorded worldwide, as the World Health Organization warns of a critical shortage of oral vaccines.
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NewsScientists to investigate why men and women are hit by the flu differently
Turns out that there is a biological reason why women and men suffer viral infections like influenza differently – and a team of scientists are extending their research to better understand why and how to design better, possible sex-specific treatments.
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NewsMulti-disciplinary team awarded $3.9 million to study mixed fungal-bacterial infections
A multi-disciplinary team was recently awarded $3.9 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project aimed at unravelling intricate mysteries surrounding complex fungal-bacterial infections.
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NewsWHO declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
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NewsHospital awarded $12m to study best approach to treat mild pneumonia in young children
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, in partnership with University of Utah Health, has been approved for $12 million in research funding for a study that will compare two ways to use antibiotics in young children with mild pneumonia.
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NewsAMI appoints four new Trustees to Executive Committee
Applied Microbiology International has announced the appointment of four new trustees to its Executive Committee.
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NewsResearch aims to streamline the detection of foodborne viruses
A research team has received a USDA grant to develop rapid, portable, single-tube technology to help maintain safety of the food supply.