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Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory Network detects and contains emerging anti…
Detection of antibiotic resistance is vital to proper treatment and containment of potential outbreaks. The Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Laboratory Network connects healthcare facilities, state and local labs, and CDC to quickly identify and contain...
ASM Communications

ASM Member Barney Graham Talks Influenza Vaccines at a Smithsonian Event
How do you talk about complex scientific ideas to the general public? Barney Graham was one of several researchers who spoke at a Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History event...
Julie Wolf

New York City’s mice carry human pathogens with antibiotic resistance genes
Researchers have found that mice living in New York City’s residential buildings harbor multiple bacteria species that can cause human fever and gastrointestinal disease, including Salmonella, Clostridium difficile, Escherichia coli...
ASM Communications

Plants and the bacteria at the root of it all
Watch where you step! Soil-dwelling bacteria may hold the key to the future of agriculture.
Erica Bizzell microbial sciences, plants, Bacteria

Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
More Than Just Strep in Strep Throat?
Strep throat isn’t just Strep anymore! The most recent organism linked to bacterial pharyngitis is the anaerobic bacterium Fusobacterium necrophorum. Find out how this and other organisms that cause pharyngitis...
Audrey Schuetz

Can colistin resistance be reversed?
Colistin resistance is now a worldwide issue. New ASM Journal articles uncover the molecular mechanism of colistin resistance, and uncover a natural product that may act to reverse resistance and...
Julie Wolf

Implementing One Health with Matthew Muturi - MTM 80
Veterinarian and epidemiologist Matthew Muturi tells how a Rift Valley Fever outbreak led to implementation of One Health-based policies.
Julie Wolf one health, MTM, podcast, Rift Valley Fever

Join in the Track Hubbub at ASM Microbe-pa-looza!
The multiple simultaneous events at ASM Microbe mimic a multistage concert with many performing acts. This is exemplified by the Track Hubs, where interactive sessions are vying for your attention...
Julie Wolf

Newly Discovered Mechanism Enables Avian Flu Viruses to Infect Humans
A team of Swiss investigators has found a new mechanism that is critical to the ability of certain avian influenza A viruses to infect humans.
ASM Communications

bioRxiv Subject Collection: Microbiology
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Monday, 23 April 2018
Multi-Hierarchical Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance Simulated in a Nested Membrane Computing Model
The membrane-computing model in this work reproduces complex biological landscapes in the computer world. It uses nested membrane-surrounded entities able to divide, propagate and die, be transfer into other membranes, exchange informative material according to flexible rules, mutate and being...

Do the Bugs in your Gut Cause Parkinson’s Disease? A Discussion with Sarkis…
The evidence that the gut microbiome influences Parkinson’s Disease, implications of this research for the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, and the involvement of the microbiome in other...
Karl Klose microbiome

Shave ice and giant viruses - TWiV 490
Human cowpox infection possibly acquired from a pet cat, and a new giant mimivirus of green algae with genes encoding enzymes of fermentation.
Vincent Racaniello TWiV, cowpox, mimivirus, algae, fermentation

Tampons Can Cause Toxic Shock Syndrome
The use of intravaginal menstrual pads may be responsible for rare cases of menstrual toxic shock syndrome in women whose vaginas have been colonized by Staphylococcus aureus producing toxic shock syndrome toxin...
ASM Communications

ASM applauds the new Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research
This important initiative to promote cross-disciplinary research to answer the complex questions about microbiome science is imperative.
ASM Communications

Fast food - TWiP 150
The case of the Panamanian Man With Leg Ulcer, and how a crab predator preferentially feeds on parasite infected prey – even though the parasite makes them faster!
Vincent Racaniello TWiP, Parasitism, Parasites

A Gathering Typhoid Storm - TWiM 174
Why untreatable typhoid fever might be on the way, and the evolution of fungal virulence in tropical frogs.
Vincent Racaniello antibiotic resistance, Typhoid Fever, Fungi

Study Finds Malaria Parasites Prevalent in North American Fawns
Parasites that cause malaria can lurk in plain sight, including in deer in North America.
ASM Communications

ASM Prepares Fiscal Year 2018 Omnibus Spending Bill Summary
The ASM Office of Public Affairs has prepared a document explaining science-related spending in the fiscal year 2018 Omnibus Spending Bill.
Public and Scientific Affairs Board

Phages Fortify Friendly Fighters - BacterioFiles 336
Phage therapy can work very well when combined with an effective immune response from the host!
Jesse Noar Bacteria, phages, antibiotics

CD4 Hunter - TWiV 489
Vincent visits Sandra Urdaneta-Hartmann at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia to talk about the development of the mobile video game ‘CD4 Hunter’

ASM Contributes to New Smithsonian Exhibition Exploring Pandemics and Emerg…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will mark the anniversary of the Great Influenza pandemic with a new exhibition, "Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World."
Katherine Lontok

A Microbiology Career in the United States Army
There are many options for newly graduated Ph.D.s and postdoctoral fellows like the lesser-known career as a Research Microbiologist in the United States Army. Dr. Gina Griffith did a postdoc...
ASM Careers