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Keynote sessions on antimicrobial resistance, the microbiome and systems vaccinology as well as presentations on late-breaking research on refugee health and colistin resistance at ECCMID 2016 The annual meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is taking place this year from April 9 – 12 in Amsterdam. At the world’s largest […]

Prosthetic joint infections are a devastating complication of arthroplasty. Despite this, current culture techniques lack sensitivity and not standardized. We examined the inoculation of peri-prosthetic tissue specimens into blood culture bottles, demonstrating improved sensitivity compared to conventional methods. These findings influence patient care, allowing accurate diagnosis of infection. by Dr T. N. Peel, B. L. […]

In February the WHO declared that the spread of ZIKV infection, which is sweeping through South and Central America resulting in more than a million cases so far, was a global health emergency. Infection with this flavivirus, endemic for decades in areas of Africa and Asia where the vector Aedes species mosquitoes breed, is usually […]