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 …
In this step you will analyse a representative Salmonella Typhi genome (labelled as BL0006) of the extensively drug resistant (XDR) Typhoid outbreak you have been investigating. The short and long …