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Sandy Beach Microbes: the Good, the Bad, and the Flesh-eating
What you should know about the microbes you interact with on the beach: some are good, and some downright terrifying.
Monika Buczek Fungi, beach microbes, Parasites
C. auris survives on plastic
The emerging multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris has caused outbreaks in several healthcare facilities. New research from the Journal of Clinical Microbiology suggests the fungus can survive for weeks on plastic surfaces...
Julie Wolf
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Interpreting the uninterpretable: testing drug/bug combinations without a b…
How does one interpret an MIC if there is no clinical breakpoint for the tested drug/bug combination? Some tools, including the epidemiological cut-off value and PK/PD breakpoints can help!
Romney Humphries
Little cross-resistance observed in clinical colistin-resistant isolates
Colistin acts by interacting with the bacterial envelope via charge interactions, a very similar mechanism to how host antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and bacterial membranes interact. A new Antimicrobial Agents and...
Julie Wolf
Back to the ancestor - TWiM 157
The role of bacteria in the genesis of moonmilk, and how ancient host proteins can be used to engineer resistance to virus infection.
Vincent Racaniello TWiM, moonmilk, cave microbiology
8 Tips to Help You Begin Writing Your Paper
For scientists it is imperative to relay your research to your colleagues through published papers. But what if you find the idea of writing overwhelming – daunting even? You struggle...
ASM Careers
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
TMI: Deciding Whether to Include MIC Values in Susceptibility Reports
When laboratories provide susceptibility reports to clinicians, they must decide whether to include minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) or to report categorical interpretations (such as susceptible or resistant) alone. In some...
Thea Brennan-Krohn
Pig microbiome makeup may influence animal growth rate
Farmers want their livestock to put on weight quickly so they can increase profits when they sell their animals. A new Applied and Environmental Microbiology study reports a possible link...
Julie Wolf
Antibodies from elite HIV controllers activate the ADCC immune response
Elite controllers are HIV-infected individuals who maintain undetectable virus levels even when not administered antiretroviral drugs. Understanding how the immune system of these elite controllers acts against HIV may help...
Julie Wolf
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Summertime, and the living is easily filled with ticks and mosquitos
Summertime brings people closer to the great outdoors - and to arthropods that can spread disease! In this week's Bugs & Drugs, we emphasize the importance of a full patient...
ASM Communications
Malaria infection decreases immune response to bacterial infection
Children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria are more susceptible to invasive infection with nontyphoidal Salmonella. A new Clinical and Vaccine Immunology report finds that the immune system of malaria-infected children has lower antibacterial...
Julie Wolf
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
When a little bit of blood won't do: detecting bacteremia
Bloodstream infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and identifying the causative organism(s) is critical. Can the most important step in this process really be as simple as...
Matthew Pettengill
5 Tips on Giving Student Researchers Useful Feedback
Regular and useful feedback heightens students’ motivation and strengthens the mentor/mentee relationship; the yield from this relationship will have a lasting influence on the student’s future. Regular feedback also instills...
Education Education
Three Klebsiella Bacteria Species Cause Life-Threatening Infections and Sha…
A team of US researchers has discovered that three different species of Klebsiella bacteria can cause life-threatening infections in hospital patients and that all three share genes that confer resistance to the...
ASM Communications
Scientists Unravel Cause of Mysterious Horse Epidemic
Sometimes, it pays to never throw things out. That is the lesson learned from researchers who identified the cause of a mysterious epidemic in horses in Iceland.
ASM Communications
Whole Genome Sequencing Identifies Cause of Zoonotic Epidemic
For the first time, researchers have used whole genome sequencing to identify the cause of a zoonotic infection that sparked a national epidemic.
ASM Communications
mSystems - Author Video Abstracts
Tn seq in Rhodobacter sphaeroides - mSystems®
Knowledge about the role of genes under a particular growth condition is required for a holistic understanding of a bacterial cell and has implications for health, agriculture, and biotechnology. We...
Chris Condayan mSystems, Rhodobacter
Kiss that frog - TWiV 452
Lynda Coughlan joins TWiV for a discussion of a host defense peptide from frogs that destroys influenza virus, and mouse models for acute and chronic hepacivirus infection.
Vincent Racaniello Virology
Phages Facilitate Photosynthesis - BacterioFiles 304
Viruses infecting cyanobacteria can produce proteins that actually help their host capture light better!
Jesse Noar Bacteria, viruses, cyanobacteria, oceans
The Mysterious Landscape
Do “microbial landscapes” really exist? Or is that phrase simply a poetic way to write about microbial ecology?
Scott Chimileski microbial sciences, biofilm
ASM Addresses Palmetto Lab Testing Reimbursement
ASM has joined other societies with expertise in diagnostic testing in a letter addressing the Palmetto Draft Local Coverage Determination of Panels Identified by Multiplex Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs)...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Microbiology Resources
One Year Later: on the Eve of WiSci 2017, 2016 Attendees Reflect on Life Si…
With WiSci 2017 soon to be under way in Malawi, WiSci 2016 attendee Leslie Anasu Espinoza Campomanes and WiSci 2016 counselor Paola Moreno-Roman reflect on how this initiative impacted their lives
International Affairs
Novel Class of Antibiotics Shows Promise Against Plague, Drug-Resistant Bac…
This week in mBio, an international group of scientists report on laboratory experiments suggesting that a novel LpxC inhibitor can treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, including many that originate in hospitals.
ASM Communications
mSystems - Author Video Abstracts
N Limitation Effects on Prochlorococcus SS120 Proteome - mSystems®
Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth, contributing significantly to global primary production and playing a prominent role in biogeochemical cycles. Here we study the effects of extreme...
Chris Condayan mSystems, Prochlorococcus
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