by Dr Dagmara Lewandowska Peri-implantitis and mucositis are common inflammatory microbial-biofilm diseases affecting tissues surrounding dental implants. Understanding the human oral micro­biome may hold the key to developing tailored and highly effective personalized treatments for these diseases. Liquid-handling automation, combined with magnetic bead separation, enables reliable, high-throughput next-generation sequencing library preparation for this crucial microbiome […]

by Dr Osaretin Emmanuel Asowata The detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in immunocompromised patients is crucial for the treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) and to prevent invasive infection. However, PCP can be challenging to diagnose clinically, as symptoms are non-specific. There are several laboratory methods that can be used to diagnose PCP and their advantages […]

What we learned from the last pandemic, which no one saw coming, is that it is difficult to answer the question “How should microbiology laboratories be prepared for the next unknown?” However, the last pandemic also taught us that it is imperative to try to answer such a question. In this article we will try […]

A thorough understanding of the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 is necessary for the evaluation of the efficacy of vaccines and vaccine candidates against this virus. This article discusses how some parts of the humoral and cellular immune responses can be analysed to improve our understanding of how the body reacts to this virus.