Course: Bacterial Genomes: Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacterial Pathogens

This three week course will cover several topics on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacterial pathogens In Week 1, you will learn what antibiotics are, how they work and what are …

Many thanks to all those who were involved in making of the course Bacterial Genomes: AMR in Bacterial Pathogens Course Lead Educators and Lead Developers Beth Blane, Dr Ewan Harrison …

Free Digital Certificate of Achievement This is a Sponsored course, which means that learners can obtain a free Certificate once they become eligible. To be eligible, you must mark at …

This week we introduced some freely available technologies for analysing bacterial genomes We investigated how antibiotic resistance genes and mutations can be detected in bacterial genomes and used to predict …

In this week you learned some basic laboratory techniques for bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing We also discussed the more advanced techniques available. You learnt about the importance of …

Health and safety in the laboratory is important, particularly when working with pathogenic bacteria. Safety measures in the laboratory are put in place to protect yourself, other workers, the environment …

We will be here during the course, commenting in the discussions from time to time and sharing our expertise with you At the end of each week, we provide a …

Quality results are the desired outputs of any microbiology laboratory. The results generated should be accurate (i.e. reflecting the true situation) and precise (i.e. reproducible). The microbiology lab should correctly …

Bacterial infections have always been a major cause of mortality in humans Many infections are caused by bacterial pathogens such as: tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, gonorrhoea caused by …